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Minor earthquake 2.94 mag, 9 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3353333S, -155.1123333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008vni, hv71472432. Unique identifier: hv71472432. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.1123333 West, latitude 19.3353333 North, depth = -0.42 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.42 km (-0 miles). The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:34:43 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/04/20 / 2020-04-13 11:34:43 / April 13, 2020 @ 11:34 am.

Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1123333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3353333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE 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 2020-04-13 11:34:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-13 22:00:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 reviewed 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 133 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 ,us,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04951 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 hv71472432 Id of event.
Event Code 71472432 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008vni,hv71472432, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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