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Minor earthquake, 3.59 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3885002S, -155.2610016WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv70396451. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70396451. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2610016 West, latitude 19.3885002 North, depth = 0.17 km. The 3.59-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:37:04 / 10:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.17 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/07/18 / 2018-07-11 08:37:04 / July 11, 2018 @ 8:37 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 5 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.59 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2610016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3885002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-07-11 08:37:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-11 08:43:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 199 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 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 hv70396451 Id of event.
Event Code 70396451 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70396451, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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