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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on December 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3236675S, -155.1921692WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of event, depth 2.08 km, -155.1921692° West, 19.3236675° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.08 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 00:20:08 / December 21, 2018 @ 12:20 am. Id of earthquake: hv70739896. Event ids that are associated: hv70739896. The temblor was reported at 14:20:08 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 12 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1921692° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3236675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.08 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 2018-12-21 00:20:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-21 00:25:50 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 135 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05218 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 hv70739896 Id of event.
Event Code 70739896 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70739896, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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