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Minor earthquake 3.95 mag, 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3981667S, -155.2728333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/06/18 / 2018-06-15 20:51:37 / June 15, 2018 @ 8:51 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv70271966. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70271966. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2728333 West, latitude 19.3981667 North, depth = 0.38 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 3.95-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:51:37 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.38 km (0 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2728333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3981667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.38 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 2018-06-15 20:51:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-15 21:12:15 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 5.26 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 240 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002887 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 hv70271966 Id of event.
Event Code 70271966 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70271966, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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