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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3985004S, -155.2783356WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70247142. Unique identifier: hv70247142. Global time and date of event 08/06/18 / 2018-06-08 06:57:49 / June 8, 2018 @ 6:57 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:57:49 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.2783356° West, 19.3985004° North, depth 0.86 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.86 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2783356° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3985004° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.86 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 2018-06-08 06:57:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-08 07:11:47 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 178 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005416 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 hv70247142 Id of event.
Event Code 70247142 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70247142, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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