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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on July 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.396S, -155.2589WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2589 West, latitude 19.396 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us2000fx3y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fx3y. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 20:05:02 / July 4, 2018 @ 8:05 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:05:02 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and one, in the last 10 days nine hundred and sixty-six, in the past 30 days two thousand and seventy-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and fifteen 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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 SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2589° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.396° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW 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 2018-07-04 20:05:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-04 21:21:46 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 reviewed 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.016 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us2000fx3y Id of event.
Event Code 2000fx3y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fx3y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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