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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii

Posted by admin on July 7, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4074993S, -155.29216WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.29216° West, 19.4074993° North, depth 0.74 km. Id of earthquake: hv70375141. Event ids that are associated: hv70375141. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.74 km (0 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:28:35 / 4:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/18 / 2018-07-07 02:28:35 / July 7, 2018 @ 2:28 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-seven, in the last 10 days eight hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km WSW 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 -155.29216° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4074993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-07-07 02:28:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-07 02:34:17 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.007456 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 hv70375141 Id of event.
Event Code 70375141 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70375141, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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