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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4168339S, -155.2640076WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. Id of earthquake: hv70343531. Event ids that are associated: hv70343531. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2640076 West, latitude 19.4168339 North, depth = 0.63 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/06/18 / 2018-06-30 13:42:41 / June 30, 2018 @ 1:42 pm. The temblor was picked up at 03:42:41 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.63 km (0 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

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 ninety-two, in the last 10 days nine hundred and eighty-five, in the past 30 days one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2640076° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4168339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 2018-06-30 13:42:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-30 13:48:23 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 134 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 hv70343531 Id of event.
Event Code 70343531 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70343531, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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