Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 20/07/18 / 2018-07-20 20:34:50 / July 20, 2018 @ 8:34 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -155.2778° West, latitude 19.3876° North, depth = 1.23 km. The temblor was reported at 10:34:50 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.23 km (1 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ga41. Id of event: us2000ga41.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy-three, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days three thousand, eight hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2778° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3876° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km 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	2018-07-20 20:34:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-20 21:45:42	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	reviewed	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	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.029	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	43	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	us2000ga41	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ga41	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ga41,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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