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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4711667S, -154.864WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.87 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -154.864° West, latitude 19.4711667° North, depth = 2.87 km. The temblor was detected at 07:22:43 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70146397. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70146397. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 17:22:43 / May 11, 2018 @ 5:22 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 12 km (7 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/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.864° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4711667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E 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 2018-05-11 17:22:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-11 18:32:21 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 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 123 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 hv70146397 Id of event.
Event Code 70146397 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70146397, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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