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Minor earthquake 2.97 mag, 56 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Posted by admin on January 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6958332S, -156.5305023WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -156.5305023° West, 19.6958332° North, depth 33.53 km. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:10:28 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70005742. Unique identifier: hv70005742. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.53 km (21 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 15:10:28 / January 4, 2018 @ 3:10 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 56 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.5305023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6958332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-04 15:10:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-04 15:16:02 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 136 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 243 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 hv70005742 Id of event.
Event Code 70005742 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70005742, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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