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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4308338S, -155.2859955WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 01:53:53 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.35 km (-0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2859955 West, latitude 19.4308338 North, depth = -0.35 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70265151. Id of event: hv70265151. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/18 / 2018-06-14 11:53:53 / June 14, 2018 @ 11:53 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Hōlualoa, Hilo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days six hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-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. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 5 km W of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2859955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4308338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-06-14 11:53:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-14 11:59:36 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009978 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 83 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 hv70265151 Id of event.
Event Code 70265151 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70265151, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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