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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3876667S, -154.9773407WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 01:56:47 / May 16, 2018 @ 1:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -154.9773407 West, latitude 19.3876667 North, depth = 6.34 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.34 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:56:47 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv70160257. Event ids that are associated: hv70160257, us1000e61l.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.9773407° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3876667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW 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 2018-05-16 01:56:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-16 02:13:56 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 121 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05238 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 178 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 hv70160257 Id of event.
Event Code 70160257 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70160257,us1000e61l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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