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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3288326S, -155.1100006WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. Event id: hv70300211. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70300211. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.51 km (-0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 17:04:21 / June 21, 2018 @ 5:04 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.1100006 West, latitude 19.3288326 North, depth = -0.51 km. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:04:21 / 7:04 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-two, in the last 10 days five hundred and sixty-eight, in the past 30 days one thousand and fourty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and twenty-one 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 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. 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: 17 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1100006° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3288326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SE 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 2018-06-21 17:04:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-21 17:10:02 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 124 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 hv70300211 Id of event.
Event Code 70300211 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70300211, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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