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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4118333S, -155.2626667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/18 / 2018-08-03 20:00:44 / August 3, 2018 @ 8:00 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.24 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 0.24 km, -155.2626667° West, 19.4118333° North. The temblor was detected at 10:00:44 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70517767. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70517767.

Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 fifty-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and nineteen, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2626667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4118333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 2018-08-03 20:00:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-04 02:41:51 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 reviewed 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 132 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 hv70517767 Id of event.
Event Code 70517767 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70517767, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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