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Minor earthquake 2.93 mag, 16 km ENE of Honalo, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.5990009S, -155.7879944WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Honalo in Hawaii on Saturday. Id of earthquake: hv70252372. Event ids that are associated: hv70252372. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.7879944 West, latitude 19.5990009 North, depth = -0.32 km. The temblor was detected at 00:18:22 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.32 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 10:18:22 / June 9, 2018 @ 10:18 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Waimea, Waikoloa Village (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km ENE of Honalo, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.7879944° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5990009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ENE of Honalo, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-09 10:18:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-09 10:23:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 132 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70252372 Id of event.
Event Code 70252372 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70252372, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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