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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4564991S, -155.3938293WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.3938293 West, latitude 19.4564991 North, depth = 3.65 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/18 / 2018-06-30 01:23:43 / June 30, 2018 @ 1:23 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.65 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 15:23:43 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70340921. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70340921.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Waimea, Kalaoa. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-five, in the last 10 days nine hundred and eighty-seven, in the past 30 days one thousand, seven hundred and six and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km W of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3938293° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4564991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W 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 01:23:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-30 01:29:24 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 138 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1015 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 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 hv70340921 Id of event.
Event Code 70340921 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70340921, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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