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Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4718342S, -155.4499969WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.4499969 West, latitude 19.4718342 North, depth = 2.05 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71019281. Id of event: hv71019281. The temblor was picked up at 16:36:40 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/19 / 2019-07-02 02:36:40 / July 2, 2019 @ 2:36 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.05 km (1 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 22 km WNW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4499969° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4718342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km WNW 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 2019-07-02 02:36:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-02 02:40:05 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 130 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv71019281 Id of event.
Event Code 71019281 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71019281, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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