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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4156667S, -155.2751667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Friday. Global time and date of event 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 00:58:47 / June 9, 2018 @ 12:58 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.03 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2751667 West, latitude 19.4156667 North, depth = 1.03 km. Event id: hv70250567. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70250567, us1000elpg. The temblor was picked up at 14:58:47 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2751667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4156667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2018-06-09 00:58:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-09 01:18:10 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 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 134 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008659 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 hv70250567 Id of event.
Event Code 70250567 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70250567,us1000elpg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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