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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4018326S, -155.2823334WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 21:51:18 / June 7, 2018 @ 9:51 pm. The temblor was reported at 11:51:18 / 11:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2823334 West, latitude 19.4018326 North, depth = 0.71 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.71 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv70245427. Event ids that are associated: hv70245427.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2823334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4018326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.71 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 2018-06-07 21:51:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-07 21:54:37 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 131 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 hv70245427 Id of event.
Event Code 70245427 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70245427, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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