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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.5035S, -155.4485016WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70231872. Id of event: hv70231872. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -1.16 km (-1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -155.4485016° West, 19.5035° North, depth -1.16 km. Global time and date of event 04/06/18 / 2018-06-04 19:18:09 / June 4, 2018 @ 7:18 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 09:18:09 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km WNW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4485016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5035° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km WNW 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 2018-06-04 19:18:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-04 19:23:53 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 135 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08943 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 hv70231872 Id of event.
Event Code 70231872 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70231872, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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