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Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3996658S, -155.2655029WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 14:31:22 / July 5, 2018 @ 2:31 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.61 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:31:22 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70368001. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70368001. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2655029 West, latitude 19.3996658 North, depth = 0.61 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 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). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days nine hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days two thousand and seventy-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2655029° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3996658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2018-07-05 14:31:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-05 14:34:36 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.001502 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70368001 Id of event.
Event Code 70368001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70368001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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