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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4190006S, -155.2794952WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv70306656. Event ids that are associated: hv70306656. The temblor was detected at 15:14:20 / 3:14 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.51 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.2794952° West, latitude 19.4190006° North, depth = 0.51 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/06/18 / 2018-06-23 01:14:20 / June 23, 2018 @ 1:14 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-five, in the last 10 days seven hundred and six, in the past 30 days one thousand, one hundred and ninety-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2794952° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4190006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.51 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 2018-06-23 01:14:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-23 01:27:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 141 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004543 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 hv70306656 Id of event.
Event Code 70306656 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70306656, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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