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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3985S, -155.2763333WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -155.2763333° West, latitude 19.3985° North, depth = 0.23 km. Global time and date of event 14/07/18 / 2018-07-14 05:08:03 / July 14, 2018 @ 5:08 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.23 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:08:03 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70419872, us2000g4w2. Id of event: hv70419872.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 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), 83 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days three thousand, three hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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 SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2763333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.23 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 2018-07-14 05:08:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-14 05:44:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 437 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type volcanic eruption Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70419872 Id of event.
Event Code 70419872 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70419872,us2000g4w2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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