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Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4265003S, -155.2716675WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.28 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 0.28 km, -155.2716675° West, 19.4265003° North. Unique identifier: hv70134901. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70134901. The temblor was detected at 08:34:01 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/05/18 / 2018-05-09 18:34:01 / May 9, 2018 @ 6:34 pm UTC/GMT.

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. Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km W of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2716675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4265003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W 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 2018-05-09 18:34:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-09 18:39:37 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 125 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.003805 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 hv70134901 Id of event.
Event Code 70134901 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70134901, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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