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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 18 km S of Fern Acres, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3503342S, -155.0578308WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Fern Acres in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.0578308° West, 19.3503342° North, depth 6.04 km. The temblor was reported at 04:30:15 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.04 km (4 miles). Unique identifier: hv70226617. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70226617. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/18 / 2018-06-03 14:30:15 / June 3, 2018 @ 2:30 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days two hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km S of Fern Acres, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.0578308° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3503342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km S of Fern Acres, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-03 14:30:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-03 14:35:57 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, 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 0.05433 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 hv70226617 Id of event.
Event Code 70226617 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70226617, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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