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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii

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Earthquake location 19.4133339S, -155.2641602WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 01:15:58 / July 4, 2018 @ 1:15 am. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:15:58 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70360271. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70360271. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2641602 West, latitude 19.4133339 North, depth = 0.88 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.88 km (1 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-nine, in the last 10 days nine hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2641602° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4133339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SW 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 2018-07-04 01:15:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-04 01:21:48 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 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 hv70360271 Id of event.
Event Code 70360271 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70360271, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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