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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii

Posted by admin on January 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.7783333S, -156.0895WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.204 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:02:01 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -156.0895° West, 19.7783333° North, depth 10.204 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/01/17 / 2017-01-05 09:02:01 / January 5, 2017 @ 9:02 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007rhv, hv61547641. Unique identifier: hv61547641.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km WNW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.0895° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7783333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.204 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW 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 2017-01-05 09:02:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 01:43:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 129 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 ,us,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 289 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 hv61547641 Id of event.
Event Code 61547641 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rhv,hv61547641, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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