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Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.387167S, -155.2774963WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.96 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv70271811. Event ids that are associated: hv70271811. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/06/18 / 2018-06-15 20:10:09 / June 15, 2018 @ 8:10 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2774963 West, latitude 19.387167 North, depth = 0.96 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:10:09 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo.

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

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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: 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2774963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.387167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-06-15 20:10:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-15 20:16:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 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 153 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004032 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 hv70271811 Id of event.
Event Code 70271811 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70271811, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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