Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3981667S, -155.293335WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 0.4 km, -155.293335° West, 19.3981667° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.4 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/18 / 2018-07-17 21:30:37 / July 17, 2018 @ 9:30 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:30:37 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70437482. Unique identifier: hv70437482.

Epicenter of the event was 43 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 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. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days seven hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

Did you feel it?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.293335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3981667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-07-17 21:30:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-17 21:36:21 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 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 hv70437482 Id of event.
Event Code 70437482 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70437482, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply