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Minor earthquake 3.24 mag, 3 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3985004S, -155.2526703WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.3 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/18 / 2018-08-01 17:02:42 / August 1, 2018 @ 5:02 pm. Exact location, longitude -155.2526703° West, latitude 19.3985004° North, depth = 0.3 km. Id of earthquake: hv70508322. Event ids that are associated: hv70508322. The temblor was detected at 07:02:42 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 3 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2526703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3985004° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.3 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 2018-08-01 17:02:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-01 17:08:26 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 162 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 0.01262 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 68 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 hv70508322 Id of event.
Event Code 70508322 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70508322, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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