Minor earthquake, 3.63 mag has occurred near Kihei in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kihei in Hawaii. Event id: hv61215256. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt16088051, hv61215256. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/03/16 / 2016-03-28 14:03:43 / March 28, 2016 @ 2:03 pm. The temblor was detected at 04:03:43 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.487 km, -156.5446667° West, 20.7781667° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.487 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Kahului (c. 26 300 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Kīhei (c. 20 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Wailuku (c. 15 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Lahaina (c. 11 700 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Waihee-Waiehu (c. 8 800 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Haiku-Pauwela (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haiku-Pauwela, Makawao, Napili-Honokowai (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.63 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.5446667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.7781667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.487 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km W of Kihei, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-28 14:03:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-28 14:54:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	78	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.58	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	235	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	,pt,hv,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.162	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	248	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	hv61215256	Id of event.
Event Code	61215256	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt16088051,hv61215256,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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