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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4650002S, -155.2886658WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:42:19 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.33 km (-0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/06/18 / 2018-06-25 18:42:19 / June 25, 2018 @ 6:42 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2886658 West, latitude 19.4650002 North, depth = -0.33 km. Unique identifier: hv70319836. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70319836.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kailua, Waimea. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-four, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fifty-four, in the past 30 days one thousand, four hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 6 km NW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2886658° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4650002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW 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 18:42:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-25 18:48:02 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 121 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0446 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 287 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 hv70319836 Id of event.
Event Code 70319836 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70319836, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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