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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4055S, -155.2548WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.73 km (1 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fz8r. Id of event: us2000fz8r. The temblor was detected at 09:39:37 / 9:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 1.73 km, -155.2548° West, 19.4055° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/07/18 / 2018-07-07 19:39:37 / July 7, 2018 @ 7:39 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2548° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4055° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 2018-07-07 19:39:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-27 01:56:54 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 158 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 0.008 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us2000fz8r Id of event.
Event Code 2000fz8r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fz8r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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