Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 10/12/15 / 2015-12-10 06:38:01 / December 10, 2015 @ 6:38 am UTC/GMT. Event id: hv61123836. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61123836. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.012 km (2 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:38:01 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.012 km, -155.622° West, 19.428° North.

Event 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). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.622° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.428° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.012 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	2015-12-10 06:38:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-10 18:31:08	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	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02567	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	hv61123836	Id of event.
Event Code	61123836	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61123836,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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