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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4204998S, -155.3005066WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/06/18 / 2018-06-30 22:07:58 / June 30, 2018 @ 10:07 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -155.3005066° West, 19.4204998° North, depth -0.58 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70345411. Id of event: hv70345411. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:07:58 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of -0.58 km (-0 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifteen, in the last 10 days one thousand and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one thousand, eight hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 6 km W of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3005066° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4204998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 22:07:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-30 22:13:38 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 136 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008832 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 hv70345411 Id of event.
Event Code 70345411 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70345411, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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