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Minor earthquake, 3.26 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3955002S, -155.2709961WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. The 3.26-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:07:14 / 6:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/07/18 / 2018-07-12 16:07:14 / July 12, 2018 @ 4:07 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70412737. Unique identifier: hv70412737. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.18 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2709961° West, 19.3955002° North, depth 0.18 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days seven hundred and thirty-five, in the past 30 days two thousand, three hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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 SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.26 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2709961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3955002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-07-12 16:07:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-12 16:12:53 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 164 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002502 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 hv70412737 Id of event.
Event Code 70412737 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70412737, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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