Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag strikes near Waikoloa Village in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Waikoloa Village in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 21:01:10 / December 9, 2016 @ 9:01 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -155.9193333 West, latitude 20.0421667 North, depth = 9.927 km. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:01:10 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv61513086. Event ids that are associated: hv61513086. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.927 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Kailua, Kalaoa. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 15 km NW of Waikoloa Village, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.9193333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.0421667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.927 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2016-12-09 21:01:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-09 23:49:17	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	2.7	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	132	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1428	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158	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	hv61513086	Id of event.
Event Code	61513086	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61513086,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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