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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3968334S, -155.2686615WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2686615 West, latitude 19.3968334 North, depth = -0.02 km. Global time and date of event 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 07:33:19 / July 29, 2018 @ 7:33 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.02 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70492182. Unique identifier: hv70492182. The temblor was picked up at 21:33:19 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby 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 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy-two, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days four thousand, three hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2686615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3968334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW 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 2018-07-29 07:33:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-29 07:53:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 151 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 hv70492182 Id of event.
Event Code 70492182 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70492182, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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