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Minor earthquake, 3.19 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4326668S, -155.3034973WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location, longitude -155.3034973° West, latitude 19.4326668° North, depth = 2.09 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70117086. Id of event: hv70117086. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.09 km (1 miles). The 3.19-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:54:58 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 00:54:58 / May 5, 2018 @ 12:54 am.

Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days seventy, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km W of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3034973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4326668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km W 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 00:54:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-05 01:00:36 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 157 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01646 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 hv70117086 Id of event.
Event Code 70117086 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70117086, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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