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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3980007S, -155.272995WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.272995 West, latitude 19.3980007 North, depth = 0.42 km. The temblor was reported at 01:46:57 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.42 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv70430827. Event ids that are associated: hv70430827. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 11:46:57 / July 16, 2018 @ 11:46 am.

Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 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), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days seven hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days three thousand, five hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.272995° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3980007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.42 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 2018-07-16 11:46:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-16 11:52:37 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 137 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002689 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 hv70430827 Id of event.
Event Code 70430827 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70430827, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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