Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 13:42:13 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -155.2488° West, 19.4053° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g9dy. Unique identifier: us2000g9dy. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 23:42:13 / July 19, 2018 @ 11:42 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one thousand and sixty-three, in the last 10 days one thousand, six hundred and fifty-five, in the past 30 days three thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2488° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4053° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 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	2018-07-19 23:42:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-05 21:43:54	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	0.012	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 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	us2000g9dy	Id of event.
Event Code	2000g9dy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000g9dy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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