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Minor earthquake, 3.74 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4185009S, -155.2714996WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.74 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 03:38:48 / July 16, 2018 @ 3:38 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2714996 West, latitude 19.4185009 North, depth = 0.22 km. The temblor was detected at 17:38:48 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.22 km (0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70429262. Id of event: hv70429262.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 39 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Kailua.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days seven hundred and nine, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days three thousand, four hundred and ninety-three 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. 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: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.74 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2714996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4185009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 03:38:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-16 03:50:13 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 4.37 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 215 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 hv70429262 Id of event.
Event Code 70429262 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70429262, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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