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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag strikes near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4345S, -154.9271667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.76 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: hv70131301. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70131301. Exact location of event, longitude -154.9271667 West, latitude 19.4345 North, depth = 3.76 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/18 / 2018-05-08 12:35:33 / May 8, 2018 @ 12:35 pm. The temblor was reported at 02:35:33 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 3 km SSW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.9271667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSW 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 2018-05-08 12:35:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-10 22:55:59 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 2.7 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 reviewed 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 hv70131301 Id of event.
Event Code 70131301 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70131301, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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