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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4021664S, -155.2754974WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/05/18 / 2018-05-26 19:26:33 / May 26, 2018 @ 7:26 pm. Id of earthquake: hv70194572. Event ids that are associated: hv70194572. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2754974° West, 19.4021664° North, depth 0.37 km. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:26:33 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.37 km (0 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 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), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2754974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4021664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-05-26 19:26:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-26 19:32:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 132 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006986 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 hv70194572 Id of event.
Event Code 70194572 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70194572, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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