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Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3258343S, -155.1493378WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:28:07 / 2:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70262926. Id of event: hv70262926. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.26 km (1 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.1493378° West, latitude 19.3258343° North, depth = 2.26 km. Global time and date of event 14/06/18 / 2018-06-14 00:28:07 / June 14, 2018 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 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 fourty-eight, in the last 10 days three hundred, in the past 30 days six hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days nine hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1493378° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3258343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SE 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 2018-06-14 00:28:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-14 00:33:50 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 138 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 hv70262926 Id of event.
Event Code 70262926 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70262926, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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