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Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag has occurred near Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:13:32 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.392 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 3.392 km, -155.6305° West, 19.408° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/08/16 / 2016-08-23 20:13:32 / August 23, 2016 @ 8:13 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61385226. Id of event: hv61385226.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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. 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: 25 km ESE of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.6305° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.408° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.392 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km ESE 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	2016-08-23 20:13:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-23 21:03:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	153	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.005902	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	hv61385226	Id of event.
Event Code	61385226	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61385226,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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