Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 5 km WSW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4591675S, -154.9668274WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. Exact location of event, depth -0.45 km, -154.9668274° West, 19.4591675° North. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:07:12 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.45 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70108261. Id of event: hv70108261. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 22:07:12 / May 2, 2018 @ 10:07 pm.

Nearby 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). Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Did you feel the quake?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km WSW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.9668274° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4591675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW 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 2018-05-02 22:07:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 22:13:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 126 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 hv70108261 Id of event.
Event Code 70108261 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70108261, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply