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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4230003S, -155.2696686WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 16:57:08 / July 19, 2018 @ 4:57 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.34 km (-0 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:57:08 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70446292. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70446292. Exact location, longitude -155.2696686° West, latitude 19.4230003° North, depth = -0.34 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Waimea, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 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), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2696686° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4230003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.34 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 2018-07-19 16:57:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-19 17:02:49 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 147 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 hv70446292 Id of event.
Event Code 70446292 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70446292, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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