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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9612S, -155.7531WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 12:09:18 / May 5, 2018 @ 12:09 pm. Event id: us1000dysc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dysc. Exact location, longitude -155.7531° West, latitude 18.9612° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:09:18 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km S of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.7531° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-05 12:09:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 06:18:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 149 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.537 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 294 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 us1000dysc Id of event.
Event Code 1000dysc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dysc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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