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Minor earthquake 2.92 mag, 2 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4200001S, -155.263504WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 02:44:01 / 2:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.263504 West, latitude 19.4200001 North, depth = 0.79 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.79 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/18 / 2018-06-17 12:44:01 / June 17, 2018 @ 12:44 pm. Id of earthquake: hv70279791. Event ids that are associated: hv70279791.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). 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 (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 2 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.263504° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4200001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km 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 2018-06-17 12:44:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-17 12:49:41 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 131 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.003871 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 hv70279791 Id of event.
Event Code 70279791 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70279791, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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