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Light earthquake 4.45 mag, 5 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3878326S, -155.2566681WA light earthquake magnitude 4.45 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv70116571. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70116571. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.07 km (-0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 22:39:31 / May 4, 2018 @ 10:39 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2566681 West, latitude 19.3878326 North, depth = -0.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:39:31 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2566681° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3878326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-05-04 22:39:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 22:45:07 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 305 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005561 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 hv70116571 Id of event.
Event Code 70116571 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70116571, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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