Minor earthquake, 3.41 mag was detected near Kalaoa in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kalaoa in Hawaii on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -156.103 West, latitude 19.7703333 North, depth = 13.619 km. Global time and date of event 08/06/17 / 2017-06-08 03:08:32 / June 8, 2017 @ 3:08 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: hv61791821. Event ids that are associated: us20009l8w, hv61791821. The temblor was detected at 17:08:32 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.619 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km W of Kalaoa, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.103° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7703333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.619 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km W 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	2017-06-08 03:08:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-08 22:17:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	30	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.63	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	188	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1418	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	228	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	hv61791821	Id of event.
Event Code	61791821	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009l8w,hv61791821,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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