Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 02:36:58 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.85 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.3003387° West, latitude 19.4006672° North, depth = 0.85 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 12:36:58 / July 19, 2018 @ 12:36 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70445412. Id of event: hv70445412.

Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty-eight, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-six and in the last 365 days three thousand, seven hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 7 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.3003387° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4006672° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km 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 12:36:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-19 12:42:42	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	135	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	0.005933	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	hv70445412	Id of event.
Event Code	70445412	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70445412,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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