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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4148331S, -155.2746735WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.38 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 06:03:18 / June 21, 2018 @ 6:03 am. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2746735 West, latitude 19.4148331 North, depth = -0.38 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70297716. Unique identifier: hv70297716. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:03:18 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days nine hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2746735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4148331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2018-06-21 06:03:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-21 06:08:59 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 137 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 hv70297716 Id of event.
Event Code 70297716 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70297716, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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