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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4109993S, -155.284668WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 23:18:27 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.65 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.284668 West, latitude 19.4109993 North, depth = 0.65 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 09:18:27 / June 7, 2018 @ 9:18 am. Id of earthquake: hv70242972. Event ids that are associated: hv70242972.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days two hundred and eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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 WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.284668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4109993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-06-07 09:18:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-07 09:27:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 137 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 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 hv70242972 Id of event.
Event Code 70242972 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70242972, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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