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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.410165786743S, -155.31134033203WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv72197141. Ids that are associated to the event: hv72197141. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.8499999046326 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.31134033203 West, latitude 19.410165786743 North, depth = 3.8499999046326 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:08:45 / 3:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/10/20 / 2020-10-24 15:08:45 / October 24, 2020 @ 3:08 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 8 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.31134033203° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.410165786743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.8499999046326 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km 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 2020-10-24 15:08:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-24 15:14:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.76 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 189 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.239999995 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 hv72197141 Id of event.
Event Code 72197141 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv72197141, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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