Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Waikoloa Village in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Waikoloa Village in Hawaii on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 07:27:58 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.27 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 17:27:58 / December 8, 2016 @ 5:27 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61511656. Id of event: hv61511656. Exact location, longitude -155.9351654° West, latitude 20.0533333° North, depth = 34.27 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Kailua, Kalaoa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 17 km NW of Waikoloa Village, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.9351654° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.0533333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km NW of Waikoloa Village, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-08 17:27:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-08 17:31:26	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	automatic	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	130	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1647	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	246	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv61511656	Id of event.
Event Code	61511656	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61511656,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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