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Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4646667S, -154.9136667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.18 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 13:12:59 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -154.9136667° West, latitude 19.4646667° North, depth = 3.18 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/18 / 2018-05-12 23:12:59 / May 12, 2018 @ 11:12 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70151177. Unique identifier: hv70151177.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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), 7 km (4 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 0 km SE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.9136667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4646667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km SE 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 2018-05-12 23:12:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 23:44:05 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 135 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009969 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 hv70151177 Id of event.
Event Code 70151177 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70151177, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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