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Minor earthquake 3.72 mag, 5 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.416S, -155.2766667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000fyp7, hv70373616. Unique identifier: hv70373616. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.65 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2766667 West, latitude 19.416 North, depth = 0.65 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 18:42:25 / July 6, 2018 @ 6:42 pm. The temblor was detected at 08:42:25 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-one, in the last 10 days eight hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.72 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2766667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.416° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.65 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 18:42:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-06 22:37:21 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 4.55 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 214 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 ,us,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.007205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 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 hv70373616 Id of event.
Event Code 70373616 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fyp7,hv70373616, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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