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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3360004S, -155.3294983WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv71039722. Event ids that are associated: hv71039722. Exact location, longitude -155.3294983° West, latitude 19.3360004° North, depth = 26.61 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.61 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 01:35:03 / 1:35 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 11:35:03 / July 9, 2019 @ 11:35 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3294983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3360004° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2019-07-09 11:35:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 11:38:16 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 129 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 hv71039722 Id of event.
Event Code 71039722 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71039722, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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