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Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2884998S, -155.2319946WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.13 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/04/19 / 2019-04-14 21:27:06 / April 14, 2019 @ 9:27 pm. Exact location, longitude -155.2319946° West, latitude 19.2884998° North, depth = 7.13 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70908281. Id of event: hv70908281. The temblor was picked up at 11:27:06 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days four thousand, eight hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km S of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2319946° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2884998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km S 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 2019-04-14 21:27:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-14 21:37:11 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 3.1 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 131 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01002 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 101 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 hv70908281 Id of event.
Event Code 70908281 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70908281, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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