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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4145S, -155.286WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: hv70294636. Event ids that are associated: hv70294636, us1000ewif. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/06/18 / 2018-06-20 14:22:23 / June 20, 2018 @ 2:22 pm. Exact location of event, depth 0.21 km, -155.286° West, 19.4145° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.21 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:22:23 / 4:22 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea. The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (48 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), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days nine hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.286° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4145° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-06-20 14:22:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-20 15:51:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 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 435 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,us, 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 0.003622 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type volcanic eruption Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70294636 Id of event.
Event Code 70294636 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70294636,us1000ewif, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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