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Minor earthquake, 3.51999998 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.40950012207S, -155.29783630371WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.51999998 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv72288872. Ids that are associated to the event: hv72288872. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/12/20 / 2020-12-18 05:36:37 / December 18, 2020 @ 5:36 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.44999998807907 km (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.29783630371 West, latitude 19.40950012207 North, depth = 0.44999998807907 km. The temblor was detected at 05:36:37 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.51999998 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.29783630371° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.40950012207° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.44999998807907 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 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 2020-12-18 05:36:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-18 05:39:43 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 191 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 40 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 0.159999996 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 hv72288872 Id of event.
Event Code 72288872 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv72288872, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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