Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.29 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 09:54:27 / July 24, 2018 @ 9:54 am. Unique identifier: hv70469092. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70469092. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2668304 West, latitude 19.3943329 North, depth = 0.29 km. The temblor was reported at 23:54:27 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-nine, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days two thousand, three hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days four thousand and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2668304° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3943329° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km 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	2018-07-24 09:54:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-24 10:00:07	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	169	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.003961	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 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	hv70469092	Id of event.
Event Code	70469092	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70469092,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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