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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3956661S, -155.280838WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70485702. Id of event: hv70485702. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 21:43:21 / July 27, 2018 @ 9:43 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.59 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.280838 West, latitude 19.3956661 North, depth = -0.59 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:43:21 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.280838° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3956661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.59 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 2018-07-27 21:43:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-27 21:49:01 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 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006798 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 30 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 hv70485702 Id of event.
Event Code 70485702 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70485702, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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