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Minor earthquake 2.97 mag, 11 km SSE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3696671S, -154.8899994WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii on Monday. Id of earthquake: hv70102076. Event ids that are associated: hv70102076. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 09:42:32 / May 1, 2018 @ 9:42 am UTC/GMT. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:42:32 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -154.8899994° West, 19.3696671° North, depth 10.28 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.28 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.8899994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3696671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-01 09:42:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-01 09:48:08 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266 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 hv70102076 Id of event.
Event Code 70102076 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70102076, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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