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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4261665S, -155.2526703WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.36 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:30:32 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.2526703° West, 19.4261665° North, depth 0.36 km. Id of earthquake: hv70431817. Event ids that are associated: hv70431817. Global time and date of event 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 16:30:32 / July 16, 2018 @ 4:30 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-four, in the last 10 days seven hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days three thousand, five hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 1 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2526703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4261665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WSW 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 16:30:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-16 16:36:16 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 146 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 hv70431817 Id of event.
Event Code 70431817 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70431817, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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