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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 11 km N of Kalaoa, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.8481667S, -156.0386667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Kalaoa in Hawaii. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.858 km (8 miles). Exact location, longitude -156.0386667° West, latitude 19.8481667° North, depth = 12.858 km. Global time and date of event 24/07/17 / 2017-07-24 19:46:16 / July 24, 2017 @ 7:46 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv61847151. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a0j1, hv61847151. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:46:16 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Hōlualoa, Waikoloa Village (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 24 km (15 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km N of Kalaoa, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.0386667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.8481667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.858 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km N 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 2017-07-24 19:46:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-27 22:32:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 163 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.251 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 hv61847151 Id of event.
Event Code 61847151 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a0j1,hv61847151, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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