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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 49 km NE of Honoka’a, Hawaii

Posted by admin on July 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.347S, -155.0892WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Honoka’a in Hawaii. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:15:06 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.0892° West, latitude 20.347° North, depth = 2.74 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002nfn, hv60954026. Id of event: us20002nfn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/06/15 / 2015-06-06 02:15:06 / June 6, 2015 @ 2:15 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.74 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Hilo. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km NE of Honoka’a, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.0892° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.347° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NE of Honoka'a, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-06 02:15:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-02 02:32:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 121 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,hv, 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 0.514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 238 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 us20002nfn Id of event.
Event Code 20002nfn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002nfn,hv60954026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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