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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3899S, -155.2888WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: us2000g58b. Event ids that are associated: us2000g58b. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/18 / 2018-07-14 23:01:47 / July 14, 2018 @ 11:01 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.64 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:01:47 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2888 West, latitude 19.3899 North, depth = 1.64 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one thousand, three hundred and ten, in the last 10 days one thousand, nine hundred and fourty-four, in the past 30 days three thousand, seven hundred and two and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3899° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km 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 2018-07-14 23:01:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-03 03:24:20 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 129 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 0.033 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us2000g58b Id of event.
Event Code 2000g58b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g58b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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