Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 17:23:30 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.34 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/18 / 2018-07-23 03:23:30 / July 23, 2018 @ 3:23 am. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2696686 West, latitude 19.416666 North, depth = -0.34 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70462912. Id of event: hv70462912.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.16 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2696686° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.416666° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.34 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	2018-07-23 03:23:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-23 03:29:10	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	154	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0103	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	hv70462912	Id of event.
Event Code	70462912	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70462912,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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