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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on June 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4058342S, -155.277832WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.82 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:11:58 / 11:11 am (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70240907. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70240907. Exact location of earthquake, -155.277832° West, 19.4058342° North, depth 0.82 km. Global time and date of event 06/06/18 / 2018-06-06 21:11:58 / June 6, 2018 @ 9:11 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.277832° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4058342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-06-06 21:11:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-06 21:15:00 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 hv70240907 Id of event.
Event Code 70240907 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70240907, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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