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Minor earthquake, 3.26 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4098339S, -155.2669983WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.18 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2669983° West, 19.4098339° North, depth -0.18 km. Id of earthquake: hv70333771. Event ids that are associated: hv70333771. The 3.26-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:11:26 / 4:11 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/18 / 2018-06-28 14:11:26 / June 28, 2018 @ 2:11 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (20 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 Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa.

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 nineteen, in the last 10 days nine hundred and seventy-four, in the past 30 days one thousand, six hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.26 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2669983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4098339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.18 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 2018-06-28 14:11:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-28 14:17:06 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 164 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.007085 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 hv70333771 Id of event.
Event Code 70333771 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70333771, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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