Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/06/18 / 2018-06-19 14:40:30 / June 19, 2018 @ 2:40 pm. The temblor was detected at 04:40:30 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of -0.57 km (-0 miles). Event id: hv70289721. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70289721. Exact location of event, depth -0.57 km, -155.3005066° West, 19.4251671° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km W of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.3005066° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4251671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km W 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	2018-06-19 14:40:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-19 14:43:38	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.009757	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 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	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv70289721	Id of event.
Event Code	70289721	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70289721,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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