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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Pukalani in Hawaii

Posted by admin on June 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.8411S, -156.409WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Pukalani in Hawaii on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.4 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us200062vm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61291446, us200062vm. Exact location of event, depth 38.4 km, -156.409° West, 20.8411° North. The temblor was picked up at 10:02:20 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 20:02:20 / June 8, 2016 @ 8:02 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) from Kahului (c. 26 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Kīhei (c. 20 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Wailuku (c. 15 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Lahaina (c. 11 700 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Waihee-Waiehu (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napili-Honokowai, Lahaina, Haiku-Pauwela (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 7 km W of Pukalani, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.409° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.8411° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km W of Pukalani, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-08 20:02:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-09 21:04:40 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 129 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 0.058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us200062vm Id of event.
Event Code 200062vm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61291446,us200062vm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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