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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Kalaoa in Hawaii

Posted by admin on February 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.0668S, -156.4878WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Kalaoa in Hawaii on Wednesday. Event id: us20008fun. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61588521, us20008fun. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/02/17 / 2017-02-01 20:08:27 / February 1, 2017 @ 8:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:08:27 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.349 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -156.4878° West, latitude 20.0668° North, depth = 32.349 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kīhei, Hōlualoa, Waikoloa Village (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Kīhei (c. 20 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km NW of Kalaoa, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.4878° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.0668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.349 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NW of Kalaoa, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-01 20:08:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-23 00:11:34 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 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,hv,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us20008fun Id of event.
Event Code 20008fun An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61588521,us20008fun, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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