Minor earthquake: M3.08 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.84 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:26:19 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.4783325 West, latitude 19.4798336 North, depth = 1.84 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/19 / 2019-02-19 10:26:19 / February 19, 2019 @ 10:26 am. Id of earthquake: hv70817631. Event ids that are associated: hv70817631.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa. Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (31 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 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: 25 km WNW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.08 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.4783325° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4798336° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km WNW 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	2019-02-19 10:26:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-19 10:32:03	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	146	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05287	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	hv70817631	Id of event.
Event Code	70817631	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70817631,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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