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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3639S, -155.2904WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:15:20 / 12:15 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000elz3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000elz3. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 10:15:20 / June 9, 2018 @ 10:15 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.42 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2904 West, latitude 19.3639 North, depth = 3.42 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two thousand, one hundred and twenty-four, in the last 10 days two thousand, three hundred and eight, in the past 30 days two thousand, six hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2904° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3639° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2018-06-09 10:15:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-07 06:42:51 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 reviewed 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us1000elz3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000elz3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000elz3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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