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Minor earthquake 3.22 mag, 4 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3956661S, -155.2668304WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2668304 West, latitude 19.3956661 North, depth = 0.13 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70188652. Id of event: hv70188652. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 01:02:21 / May 25, 2018 @ 1:02 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.13 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:02:21 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days three hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.22 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2668304° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3956661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW 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 2018-05-25 01:02:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-25 01:15:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 160 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002671 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 hv70188652 Id of event.
Event Code 70188652 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70188652, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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