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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4228325S, -155.2706604WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.07 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:10:40 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/04/19 / 2019-04-20 15:10:40 / April 20, 2019 @ 3:10 pm. Event id: hv70917986. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70917986. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2706604 West, latitude 19.4228325 North, depth = 0.07 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days four thousand, eight hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2706604° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4228325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WSW 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 2019-04-20 15:10:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-20 15:16:24 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 125 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 hv70917986 Id of event.
Event Code 70917986 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70917986, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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