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Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3986664S, -155.2718353WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 14:15:01 / May 30, 2018 @ 2:15 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:15:01 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.87 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv70209372. Event ids that are associated: hv70209372. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2718353° West, 19.3986664° North, depth 1.87 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event 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 (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2718353° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3986664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.87 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 2018-05-30 14:15:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-30 14:18:10 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 137 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.003698 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70209372 Id of event.
Event Code 70209372 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70209372, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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