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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag strikes near Honoka’a in Hawaii


Earthquake location 20.0243333S, -155.3721667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Honoka’a in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/10/16 / 2016-10-08 00:21:27 / October 8, 2016 @ 12:21 am. Event id: hv61436771. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61436771. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:21:27 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.3721667 West, latitude 20.0243333 North, depth = 9.033 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.033 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km ESE of Honoka’a, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3721667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.0243333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.033 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ESE of Honoka'a, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-08 00:21:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-08 00:42:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 163 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 hv61436771 Id of event.
Event Code 61436771 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61436771, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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