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Minor earthquake: M3.99 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4125S, -155.2801667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.43 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:43:40 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70191882. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18145050, hv70191882. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2801667 West, latitude 19.4125 North, depth = 0.43 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 22:43:40 / May 25, 2018 @ 10:43 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-five, in the past 30 days four hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2801667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WSW 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 22:43:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-25 23:02:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 reviewed 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 249 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 ,pt,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 hv70191882 Id of event.
Event Code 70191882 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18145050,hv70191882, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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