Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Kahaluu-Keauhou in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kahaluu-Keauhou in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.3533325 West, latitude 19.3936672 North, depth = 9.29 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:15:48 / 6:15 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/17 / 2017-01-20 16:15:48 / January 20, 2017 @ 4:15 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.29 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: hv61571051. Unique identifier: hv61571051.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Hōlualoa, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km WSW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.3533325° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3936672° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km WSW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-20 16:15:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-20 16:20:27	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	122	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	236	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	hv61571051	Id of event.
Event Code	61571051	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61571051,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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