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Light earthquake, 4.36 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4193333S, -155.2768333WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.36 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 14/07/18 / 2018-07-14 04:13:33 / July 14, 2018 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70419657, us2000g4up. Unique identifier: hv70419657. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.79 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:13:33 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.2768333° West, 19.4193333° North, depth 0.79 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 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), 81 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-two, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days three thousand, three hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.36 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2768333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4193333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-07-14 04:13:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-14 04:57:19 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 5.44 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed 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 292 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005444 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 hv70419657 Id of event.
Event Code 70419657 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70419657,us2000g4up, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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