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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii

Posted by admin on June 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.404S, -155.2936WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Tuesday. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:32:27 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.2936° West, 19.404° North, depth 1.45 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/18 / 2018-06-05 14:32:27 / June 5, 2018 @ 2:32 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000ej12. Event ids that are associated: pt18156050, us1000ej12. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.45 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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), 78 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-three, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2936° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.404° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.45 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 2018-06-05 14:32:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-05 14:55:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 reviewed 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 468 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.017 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 34 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type volcanic eruption Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ej12 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ej12 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18156050,us1000ej12, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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