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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

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Earthquake location 19.388834S, -155.2813263WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70332611. Id of event: hv70332611. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:39:30 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2813263 West, latitude 19.388834 North, depth = 1.16 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.16 km (1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/18 / 2018-06-28 08:39:30 / June 28, 2018 @ 8:39 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 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 one hundred and thirty, in the last 10 days one thousand and fifteen, in the past 30 days one thousand, six hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2813263° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.388834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-06-28 08:39:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-28 08:45:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 hv70332611 Id of event.
Event Code 70332611 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70332611, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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