Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/18 / 2018-07-25 20:01:13 / July 25, 2018 @ 8:01 pm. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:01:13 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.3 km (-0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2611694 West, latitude 19.3968334 North, depth = -0.3 km. Unique identifier: hv70475847. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70475847.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty, in the past 30 days two thousand, two hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days four thousand, one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2611694° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3968334° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SSW 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	2018-07-25 20:01:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-25 20:16:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	138	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.004799	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	45	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	hv70475847	Id of event.
Event Code	70475847	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70475847,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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