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Minor earthquake 3.21 mag, 20 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2730007S, -155.863327WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv61575441. Ids that are associated to the event: hv61575441. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/17 / 2017-01-23 19:13:15 / January 23, 2017 @ 7:13 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.79 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7.79 km, -155.863327° West, 19.2730007° North. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:13:15 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.863327° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2730007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-23 19:13:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-23 19:19:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 159 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01108 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 225 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 hv61575441 Id of event.
Event Code 61575441 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61575441, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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