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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4176674S, -155.2693329WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Sunday. Event id: hv70429632. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70429632. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.92 km (1 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:39:35 / 7:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2693329 West, latitude 19.4176674 North, depth = 0.92 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 05:39:35 / July 16, 2018 @ 5:39 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days seven hundred and nine, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and twenty-two and in the last 365 days three thousand, four hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2693329° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4176674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 2018-07-16 05:39:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-16 05:45:21 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 142 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00949 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 48 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 hv70429632 Id of event.
Event Code 70429632 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70429632, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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