Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.01 km (-0 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.264328° West, latitude 19.4160004° North, depth = -0.01 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70261452. Id of event: hv70261452. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 10:20:16 / June 11, 2018 @ 10:20 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:20:16 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days two hundred and fifty-two, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.264328° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4160004° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km 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	2018-06-11 10:20:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-11 10:25:57	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	128	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.005727	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	74	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	hv70261452	Id of event.
Event Code	70261452	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70261452,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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