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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.401S, -155.281WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.281 West, latitude 19.401 North, depth = -0.86 km. Id of earthquake: hv70196252. Event ids that are associated: hv70196252. The temblor was detected at 02:36:56 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/05/18 / 2018-05-27 12:36:56 / May 27, 2018 @ 12:36 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.86 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days four hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.281° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.86 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 2018-05-27 12:36:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-27 18:06:32 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 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 121 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 221 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 hv70196252 Id of event.
Event Code 70196252 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70196252, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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