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Minor earthquake 3.44 mag, 13 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3156662S, -155.1945038WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. Global time and date of event 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 20:51:37 / May 21, 2018 @ 8:51 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv70179557. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70179557. Exact location of earthquake, -155.1945038° West, 19.3156662° North, depth 7.25 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.25 km (5 miles). The 3.44-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:51:37 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-six, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1945038° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3156662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-21 20:51:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-21 20:57:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 183 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network hv The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70179557 Id of event.
Event Code 70179557 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70179557, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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