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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4036674S, -155.2888336WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.4 km (-0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70209947. Id of event: hv70209947. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2888336 West, latitude 19.4036674 North, depth = -0.4 km. The temblor was reported at 07:24:03 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 17:24:03 / May 30, 2018 @ 5:24 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Each 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 nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and five, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2888336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4036674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-05-30 17:24:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-30 17:29:43 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 125 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 hv70209947 Id of event.
Event Code 70209947 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70209947, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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