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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4185S, -155.2897WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.64 km (4 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:42:26 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.2897° West, latitude 19.4185° North, depth = 5.64 km. Event id: us2000fyp7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fyp7. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 18:42:26 / July 6, 2018 @ 6:42 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-eight, in the last 10 days eight hundred and eighty-two, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2897° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4185° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-07-06 18:42:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-06 21:58:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 0.002 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000fyp7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000fyp7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fyp7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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