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Light earthquake, 4.07 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4166667S, -155.2765WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.07 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 29/06/18 / 2018-06-29 12:47:45 / June 29, 2018 @ 12:47 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:47:45 / 2:47 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.87 km (1 miles). Unique identifier: hv70338351. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70338351. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2765 West, latitude 19.4166667 North, depth = 0.87 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea. Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-six, in the last 10 days nine hundred and sixty-seven, in the past 30 days one thousand, six hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

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: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2765° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4166667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2018-06-29 12:47:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-29 14:07:48 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 reviewed 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 255 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.007238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 hv70338351 Id of event.
Event Code 70338351 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70338351, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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