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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.317667S, -155.0713348WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. Unique identifier: hv70297711. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70297711. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.48 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 06:01:56 / June 21, 2018 @ 6:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.0713348 West, latitude 19.317667 North, depth = 5.48 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:01:56 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.0713348° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.317667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 06:01:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-21 06:07:37 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 138 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 hv70297711 Id of event.
Event Code 70297711 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70297711, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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