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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3274994S, -155.1820068WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv70531297. Event ids that are associated: hv70531297. The temblor was picked up at 22:40:11 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/18 / 2018-08-09 08:40:11 / August 9, 2018 @ 8:40 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.4 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.1820068 West, latitude 19.3274994 North, depth = 1.4 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days one thousand, six hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1820068° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3274994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SSE 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 2018-08-09 08:40:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-09 08:43:28 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 121 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05305 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70531297 Id of event.
Event Code 70531297 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70531297, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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