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Minor earthquake, 3.22 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4223328S, -155.2781677WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.26 km (0 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:30:53 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 10:30:53 / May 11, 2018 @ 10:30 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70144817. Unique identifier: hv70144817. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2781677 West, latitude 19.4223328 North, depth = 0.26 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-eight 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.

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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. 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: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.22 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2781677° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4223328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WSW 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 2018-05-11 10:30:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-11 10:36:31 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 160 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002477 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 hv70144817 Id of event.
Event Code 70144817 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70144817, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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