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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4118328S, -155.2964935WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.32 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:08:34 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/18 / 2018-07-03 11:08:34 / July 3, 2018 @ 11:08 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70357566. Unique identifier: hv70357566. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2964935 West, latitude 19.4118328 North, depth = 0.32 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-four, in the last 10 days one thousand and twelve, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and five 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 quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2964935° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4118328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-07-03 11:08:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-03 11:14:16 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 hv70357566 Id of event.
Event Code 70357566 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70357566, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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