Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 18/06/18 / 2018-06-18 11:38:44 / June 18, 2018 @ 11:38 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2565002° West, 19.4090004° North, depth 0.99 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70284301. Id of event: hv70284301. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.99 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:38:44 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 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), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-seven, in the last 10 days four hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2565002° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4090004° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km 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	2018-06-18 11:38:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-18 11:44:24	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	122	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.004426	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	hv70284301	Id of event.
Event Code	70284301	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70284301,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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