Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.79 km (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70319321. Unique identifier: hv70319321. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/18 / 2018-06-25 16:30:44 / June 25, 2018 @ 4:30 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2624969 West, latitude 19.4071674 North, depth = 0.79 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:30:44 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-nine, in the last 10 days seven hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days one thousand, three hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2624969° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4071674° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SW 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	2018-06-25 16:30:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-25 16:36:25	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	133	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.005483	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	hv70319321	Id of event.
Event Code	70319321	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70319321,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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