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Minor earthquake: M2.97 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on July 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.309S, -155.071167WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. Unique identifier: hv70465252. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70465252. The temblor was detected at 05:17:43 / 5:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.8 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/18 / 2018-07-23 15:17:43 / July 23, 2018 @ 3:17 pm. Exact location, longitude -155.071167° West, latitude 19.309° North, depth = 12.8 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy-six, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and three and in the last 365 days three thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven 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. 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: 22 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.071167° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SE 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 15:17:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-23 15:23:23 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 136 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 hv70465252 Id of event.
Event Code 70465252 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70465252, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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