Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv70355231. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70355231, us2000fv7r. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 23:10:01 / July 2, 2018 @ 11:10 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:10:01 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.84 km (-1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2788391 West, latitude 19.4096661 North, depth = -0.84 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 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), 80 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-seven, in the last 10 days one thousand and twelve, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.14 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2788391° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4096661° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.84 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	2018-07-02 23:10:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-02 23:22:01	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	152	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.009375	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	27	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	hv70355231	Id of event.
Event Code	70355231	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70355231,us2000fv7r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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