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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3600006S, -155.0953369WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. Global time and date of event 28/10/19 / 2019-10-28 20:32:00 / October 28, 2019 @ 8:32 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.55 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:32:00 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.0953369 West, latitude 19.3600006 North, depth = 5.55 km. Unique identifier: hv71202031. Ids that are associated to the event: hv71202031.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km ESE of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.0953369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3600006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE 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 2019-10-28 20:32:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-28 20:35:10 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 134 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02463 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 144 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 hv71202031 Id of event.
Event Code 71202031 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71202031, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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