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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2739S, -155.1472WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 01:34:11 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/21 / 2021-01-14 01:34:11 / January 14, 2021 @ 1:34 am. Exact location of earthquake, -155.1472° West, 19.2739° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d85m. Unique identifier: us6000d85m.

The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1472° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2739° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km 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 2021-01-14 01:34:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-14 01:52:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 reviewed 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 139 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us6000d85m Id of event.
Event Code 6000d85m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d85m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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