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Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3966675S, -155.2745056WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 09:11:47 / August 2, 2018 @ 9:11 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2745056 West, latitude 19.3966675 North, depth = 1.68 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.68 km (1 miles). The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:11:47 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70511312. Unique identifier: hv70511312.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-two, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days two thousand and thirty and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and twenty-three 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2745056° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3966675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.68 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 2018-08-02 09:11:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-02 09:17:31 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 128 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 0.001528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 hv70511312 Id of event.
Event Code 70511312 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70511312, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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