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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.435667S, -155.3159943WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:47:53 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70188602. Unique identifier: hv70188602. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.3159943 West, latitude 19.435667 North, depth = 2.6 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 00:47:53 / May 25, 2018 @ 12:47 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.6 km (2 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km W of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3159943° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.435667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km 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 2018-05-25 00:47:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-25 00:53:32 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 122 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 318 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 hv70188602 Id of event.
Event Code 70188602 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70188602, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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