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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4121666S, -155.2606659WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/06/18 / 2018-06-20 11:17:20 / June 20, 2018 @ 11:17 am. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2606659° West, 19.4121666° North, depth 0.12 km. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:17:20 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv70293996. Event ids that are associated: hv70293996. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.12 km (0 miles).

Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days nine hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2606659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4121666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SW 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 2018-06-20 11:17:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-20 11:23:11 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 127 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01082 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 hv70293996 Id of event.
Event Code 70293996 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70293996, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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