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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.416666S, -155.2701721WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:31:36 / 1:31 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/06/18 / 2018-06-01 11:31:36 / June 1, 2018 @ 11:31 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2701721 West, latitude 19.416666 North, depth = 0.78 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.78 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70217312. Unique identifier: hv70217312.

Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). 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.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days two hundred, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2701721° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.416666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 2018-06-01 11:31:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-01 11:34:28 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 124 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01062 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 hv70217312 Id of event.
Event Code 70217312 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70217312, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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