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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag was detected near Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4306667S, -155.6228333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.842 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -155.6228333 West, latitude 19.4306667 North, depth = 3.842 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 18:47:59 / July 28, 2015 @ 6:47 pm. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:47:59 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv60992381. Id of event: hv60992381.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 25 km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.6228333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4306667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.842 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-28 18:47:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-28 21:47:42 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 167 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02814 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 hv60992381 Id of event.
Event Code 60992381 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv60992381, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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