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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4353333S, -155.2850037WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.44 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 23/06/18 / 2018-06-23 03:05:19 / June 23, 2018 @ 3:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth -0.44 km, -155.2850037° West, 19.4353333° North. Id of earthquake: hv70307061. Event ids that are associated: hv70307061. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:05:19 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Kailua. Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days one thousand, one hundred and seventy-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2850037° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4353333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km W 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 03:05:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-23 03:11:07 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 167 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01264 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 hv70307061 Id of event.
Event Code 70307061 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70307061, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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