Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Leilani Estates in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -154.8793335 West, latitude 19.4511662 North, depth = 3.5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.5 km (2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:35:36 / 5:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/18 / 2018-05-03 03:35:36 / May 3, 2018 @ 3:35 am. Id of earthquake: hv70109176. Event ids that are associated: hv70109176.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 38 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km ESE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-154.8793335° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4511662° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km ESE 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	2018-05-03 03:35:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-03 03:47:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	137	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03025	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	259	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	hv70109176	Id of event.
Event Code	70109176	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70109176,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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