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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4158325S, -155.2838287WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2838287 West, latitude 19.4158325 North, depth = -0.43 km. Id of earthquake: hv70352801. Event ids that are associated: hv70352801. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 10:55:23 / July 2, 2018 @ 10:55 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.43 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:55:23 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-five, in the last 10 days one thousand and seventy, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2838287° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4158325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-07-02 10:55:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-02 11:01:26 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 133 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.001837 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 hv70352801 Id of event.
Event Code 70352801 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70352801, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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