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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4158333S, -155.271WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -1.08 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -155.271 West, latitude 19.4158333 North, depth = -1.08 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g5cm, hv70424432. Unique identifier: hv70424432. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/18 / 2018-07-15 03:02:04 / July 15, 2018 @ 3:02 am UTC/GMT. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:02:04 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter 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). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Waimea, Kailua (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one thousand, three hundred and eighty-four, in the last 10 days two thousand and fourty-two, in the past 30 days three thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 2 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.271° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4158333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSW 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 2018-07-15 03:02:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-10 20:36:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.32 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 167 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 ,us,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 hv70424432 Id of event.
Event Code 70424432 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g5cm,hv70424432, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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