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Minor earthquake 2.84 mag, 10 km SSE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3808327S, -154.8828278WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/18 / 2018-05-10 10:19:23 / May 10, 2018 @ 10:19 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.18 km (-0 miles). The 2.84-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:19:23 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -154.8828278 West, latitude 19.3808327 North, depth = -0.18 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70140092. Id of event: hv70140092.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 10 km SSE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.8828278° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3808327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2018-05-10 10:19:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-10 10:32:45 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 124 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08174 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 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 hv70140092 Id of event.
Event Code 70140092 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70140092, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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