Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of event, longitude -155.3196716 West, latitude 19.4118328 North, depth = 3.01 km. Id of earthquake: hv70117151. Event ids that are associated: hv70117151. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.01 km (2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:06:58 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 01:06:58 / May 5, 2018 @ 1:06 am.

The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-eight, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days eighty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.3196716° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4118328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km 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	2018-05-05 01:06:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-05 01:18:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	137	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	0.01927	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	hv70117151	Id of event.
Event Code	70117151	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70117151,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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