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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Kapaau in Hawaii

Posted by admin on April 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.4669S, -155.7371WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Kapaau in Hawaii on Friday. Unique identifier: us10004xi6. Ids that are associated to the event: hv61201031, us10004xi6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.53 km (13 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 05:36:09 / March 12, 2016 @ 5:36 am. Exact location, longitude -155.7371° West, latitude 20.4669° North, depth = 21.53 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:36:09 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Haiku-Pauwela (c. 8 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Pukalani (c. 7 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Makawao (c. 7 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 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 Haiku-Pauwela, Pukalani, Makawao.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km NNE of Kapaau, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.7371° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.4669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NNE of Kapaau, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-12 05:36:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-07 05:47:23 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 148 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 ,hv,us, 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 0.32 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 208 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 us10004xi6 Id of event.
Event Code 10004xi6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61201031,us10004xi6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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