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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4093S, -155.264WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70364026, us2000fx2h. Id of event: us2000fx2h. Exact location of event, longitude -155.264 West, latitude 19.4093 North, depth = 2.65 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.65 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 19:01:05 / July 4, 2018 @ 7:01 pm. The temblor was reported at 09:01:05 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 80 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourty, in the last 10 days one thousand and seven, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.264° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SW 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 19:01:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-05 20:19:05 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 148 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 ,hv,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 0.004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us2000fx2h Id of event.
Event Code 2000fx2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70364026,us2000fx2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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