Minor earthquake, 3.72 mag strikes near Honoka’a in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Honoka’a in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 09:38:33 / January 23, 2018 @ 9:38 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.65 km (47 miles). The 3.72-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:38:33 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 75.65 km, -155.2301636° West, 20.5721664° North. Id of earthquake: hv70019712. Event ids that are associated: hv70019712.

The epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea. Close 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 59 km NNE of Honoka’a, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.72 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2301636° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.5721664° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	75.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km NNE of Honoka'a, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-23 09:38:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-23 09:45:17	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	1	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	213	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6792	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	295	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	hv70019712	Id of event.
Event Code	70019712	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70019712,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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