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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3891S, -155.2515WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2515 West, latitude 19.3891 North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g03k. Id of event: us2000g03k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:51:27 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/07/18 / 2018-07-09 04:51:27 / July 9, 2018 @ 4:51 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 82 km (51 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), 83 km (52 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-eight, in the last 10 days eight hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days two thousand, two hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days three thousand and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 4 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2515° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3891° 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 2018-07-09 04:51:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-09 05:33:00 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 178 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 0.018 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 43 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 us2000g03k Id of event.
Event Code 2000g03k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g03k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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