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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4373341S, -154.8961639WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv70143902. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70143902. The temblor was detected at 18:46:53 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 04:46:53 / May 11, 2018 @ 4:46 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.75 km (0 miles). Exact location, longitude -154.8961639° West, latitude 19.4373341° North, depth = 0.75 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter 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).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.8961639° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4373341° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2018-05-11 04:46:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-11 04:52:26 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 130 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02787 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 hv70143902 Id of event.
Event Code 70143902 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70143902, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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