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Minor earthquake 2.92 mag, 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4108334S, -155.2676697WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 20:59:57 / 8:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70293061. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70293061. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/06/18 / 2018-06-20 06:59:57 / June 20, 2018 @ 6:59 am. Exact location, longitude -155.2676697° West, latitude 19.4108334° North, depth = 0.88 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.88 km (1 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days nine hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and twelve 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2676697° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4108334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.88 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 2018-06-20 06:59:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-20 07:03:22 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 hv70293061 Id of event.
Event Code 70293061 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70293061, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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