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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3998337S, -155.2904968WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/18 / 2018-06-28 12:35:21 / June 28, 2018 @ 12:35 pm. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:35:21 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.15 km (0 miles). Id of earthquake: hv70333421. Event ids that are associated: hv70333421. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2904968° West, 19.3998337° North, depth 0.15 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo. Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and four, in the last 10 days nine hundred and seventy-four, in the past 30 days one thousand, six hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2904968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3998337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-06-28 12:35:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-28 12:41:01 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 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01032 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 hv70333421 Id of event.
Event Code 70333421 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70333421, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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