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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Hana in Hawaii

Posted by admin on August 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.8197S, -155.7173WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Hana in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 13:12:40 / July 30, 2016 @ 1:12 pm. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:12:40 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61358026, us100068rn. Id of event: us100068rn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.253 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -155.7173 West, latitude 20.8197 North, depth = 5.253 km.

Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Kahului (c. 26 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kīhei (c. 20 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Wailuku (c. 15 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Waihee-Waiehu (c. 8 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Haiku-Pauwela (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waihee-Waiehu, Wailuku, Kahului. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km ENE of Hana, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.7173° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.8197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.253 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km ENE of Hana, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-30 13:12:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-22 18:19:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 178 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 0.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 us100068rn Id of event.
Event Code 100068rn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61358026,us100068rn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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