Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -1.07 km (-1 miles). The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:29:07 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70452767. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70452767. Exact location, longitude -155.2646637° West, latitude 19.4348335° North, depth = -1.07 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/18 / 2018-07-21 01:29:07 / July 21, 2018 @ 1:29 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2646637° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4348335° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km W 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	2018-07-21 01:29:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-21 01:34:48	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	127	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.008224	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	hv70452767	Id of event.
Event Code	70452767	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70452767,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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