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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.423666S, -155.2709961WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 11:30:32 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.13 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/09/19 / 2019-09-03 21:30:32 / September 3, 2019 @ 9:30 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv71124027. Ids that are associated to the event: hv71124027. Exact location, longitude -155.2709961° West, latitude 19.423666° North, depth = 0.13 km.

The 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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2709961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.423666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.13 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 2019-09-03 21:30:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-03 21:36:13 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 124 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004616 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 hv71124027 Id of event.
Event Code 71124027 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71124027, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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