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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4891663S, -154.8769989WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -154.8769989° West, 19.4891663° North, depth 1.3 km. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:36:30 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.3 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 15:36:30 / May 11, 2018 @ 3:36 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70146012. Unique identifier: hv70146012.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 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 seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km ENE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.8769989° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4891663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ENE 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 15:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-11 15:42:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 127 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01404 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 hv70146012 Id of event.
Event Code 70146012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70146012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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