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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3255005S, -155.1843262WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.31 km (1 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:11:51 / 3:11 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 01:11:51 / May 5, 2018 @ 1:11 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70117161. Id of event: hv70117161. Exact location of event, depth 2.31 km, -155.1843262° West, 19.3255005° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and two, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1843262° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3255005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SSE 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 2018-05-05 01:11:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-05 01:17:28 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 121 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 hv70117161 Id of event.
Event Code 70117161 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70117161, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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