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Minor earthquake, 2.96000004 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.399833679199S, -155.26300048828WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96000004 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/20 / 2020-11-21 11:07:38 / November 21, 2020 @ 11:07 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv72239332. Id of event: hv72239332. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.21999999880791 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.96000004-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:07:38 / 11:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 0.21999999880791 km, -155.26300048828° West, 19.399833679199° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96000004 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.26300048828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.399833679199° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.21999999880791 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SSW 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 2020-11-21 11:07:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-21 11:10:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 135 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 21 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 0.189999998 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 hv72239332 Id of event.
Event Code 72239332 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv72239332, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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