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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4061661S, -155.3563385WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:17:04 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70235202. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70235202. Exact location of earthquake, -155.3563385° West, 19.4061661° North, depth 0.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/06/18 / 2018-06-05 13:17:04 / June 5, 2018 @ 1:17 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Waimea, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3563385° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4061661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 2018-06-05 13:17:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-05 13:20:10 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 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0766 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 hv70235202 Id of event.
Event Code 70235202 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70235202, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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