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Minor earthquake: M3.93 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3276672S, -155.2036591WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: pt20034002, hv71365812. Unique identifier: hv71365812. The temblor was picked up at 20:37:09 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.62 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2036591 West, latitude 19.3276672 North, depth = 1.62 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/02/20 / 2020-02-03 06:37:09 / February 3, 2020 @ 6:37 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event 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 (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 11 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2036591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3276672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km 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 2020-02-03 06:37:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-03 06:43:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 27 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 248 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 ,pt,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 hv71365812 Id of event.
Event Code 71365812 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20034002,hv71365812, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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