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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4213333S, -155.2543335WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Friday. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:21:58 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/06/18 / 2018-06-22 23:21:58 / June 22, 2018 @ 11:21 pm. Id of earthquake: hv70306311. Event ids that are associated: hv70306311. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.58 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2543335 West, latitude 19.4213333 North, depth = 0.58 km.

The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and thirty-four, in the last 10 days eight hundred and six, in the past 30 days one thousand, two hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and ninety-three 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 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 2 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2543335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4213333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km 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 2018-06-22 23:21:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-22 23:27:40 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 124 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006461 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 171 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 hv70306311 Id of event.
Event Code 70306311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70306311, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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