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Minor earthquake, 3.30999994 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.401332855225S, -155.2791595459WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.30999994 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 21/12/20 / 2020-12-21 07:15:34 / December 21, 2020 @ 7:15 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.93000000715256 km (1 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.2791595459° West, latitude 19.401332855225° North, depth = 0.93000000715256 km. The 3.30999994-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:15:34 / 7:15 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv72294562. Unique identifier: hv72294562.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waimea, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.30999994 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2791595459° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.401332855225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.93000000715256 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km 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 2020-12-21 07:15:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-21 07:18:26 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 169 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 18 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 0.100000001 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 hv72294562 Id of event.
Event Code 72294562 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv72294562, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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