Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near Leilani Estates in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/06/18 / 2018-06-17 06:54:43 / June 17, 2018 @ 6:54 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -154.9689941 West, latitude 19.3336658 North, depth = 9.31 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.31 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70278621. Id of event: hv70278621. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:54:43 / 8:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days four hundred and nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-154.9689941° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3336658° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km SSW 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	2018-06-17 06:54:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-17 07:01:50	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	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	137	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1049	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	271	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	hv70278621	Id of event.
Event Code	70278621	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70278621,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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