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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/08/16 / 2016-08-09 05:45:24 / August 9, 2016 @ 5:45 am. Exact location of earthquake, -155.6145° West, 19.4308333° North, depth 3.042 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv61368956. Unique identifier: hv61368956. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.042 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:45:24 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.6145° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4308333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.042 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-09 05:45:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-09 20:45:37	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	133	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02365	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	hv61368956	Id of event.
Event Code	61368956	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61368956,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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