Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 105 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 105 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii (65 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.9539 West, latitude 19.351 North, depth = 18.86 km. Global time and date of event 22/08/16 / 2016-08-22 01:12:13 / August 22, 2016 @ 1:12 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.86 km (12 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:12:13 / 3:12 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006fnc. Ids that are associated to the event: hv61382931, us10006fnc.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 105 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.9539° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.351° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	105km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-22 01:12:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-08 03:50:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	121	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	0.987	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	322	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	us10006fnc	Id of event.
Event Code	10006fnc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61382931,us10006fnc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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