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Minor earthquake 2.99 mag, 6 km ENE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4825001S, -154.8581696WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv70144097. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70144097. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:06:02 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 06:06:02 / May 11, 2018 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -154.8581696 West, latitude 19.4825001 North, depth = -0.12 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.12 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 6 km ENE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.8581696° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4825001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 06:06:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-11 06:12:10 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 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 138 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01575 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 137 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 hv70144097 Id of event.
Event Code 70144097 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70144097, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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