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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9353333S, -155.552002WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 26 km ESE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii (16 miles). Global time and date of event 11/04/16 / 2016-04-11 18:04:51 / April 11, 2016 @ 6:04 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61228246. Id of event: hv61228246. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.552002 West, latitude 18.9353333 North, depth = 37.27 km. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:04:51 / 8:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.27 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km ESE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.552002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9353333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ESE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-11 18:04:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-11 18:08:51 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 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 128 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 244 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv61228246 Id of event.
Event Code 61228246 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61228246, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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