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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4489994S, -154.8739929WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv70167186. Event ids that are associated: hv70167186. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/05/18 / 2018-05-20 18:33:58 / May 20, 2018 @ 6:33 pm. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:33:58 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -154.8739929° West, 19.4489994° North, depth 1.57 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.57 km (1 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-two, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-six 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km ESE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.8739929° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4489994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE 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 2018-05-20 18:33:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-20 18:39:38 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 145 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 hv70167186 Id of event.
Event Code 70167186 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70167186, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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