Minor earthquake 3.16 mag, 24 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Waimea in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv61223741. Unique identifier: hv61223741. The temblor was detected at 19:55:58 / 7:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/04/16 / 2016-04-06 05:55:58 / April 6, 2016 @ 5:55 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.19 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.5561676° West, latitude 19.8353329° North, depth = 20.19 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 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 Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kailua.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.16 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.5561676° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.8353329° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-06 05:55:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-06 06:02:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	automatic	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	154	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09775	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	hv61223741	Id of event.
Event Code	61223741	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61223741,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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