Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 41.3 km, -155.9989929° West, 19.5988331° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.3 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70037037. Id of event: hv70037037. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:01:32 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/02/18 / 2018-02-13 23:01:32 / February 13, 2018 @ 11:01 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km S of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.9989929° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5988331° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km S 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	2018-02-13 23:01:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-13 23:18:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	132	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1001	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	222	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	hv70037037	Id of event.
Event Code	70037037	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70037037,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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