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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 5 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.398166656494S, -155.25765991211WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 02:05:21 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.25765991211 West, latitude 19.398166656494 North, depth = 1.6900000572205 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.6900000572205 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/11/20 / 2020-11-12 02:05:21 / November 12, 2020 @ 2:05 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: hv72225942. Unique identifier: hv72225942.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 5 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.25765991211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.398166656494° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.6900000572205 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SSW 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 2020-11-12 02:05:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-12 02:08:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 138 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.170000002 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 hv72225942 Id of event.
Event Code 72225942 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv72225942, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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