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Minor earthquake: M3.77 quake has struck near Mountain View in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.6081657S, -155.1173401WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.77 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mountain View in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:25:29 / 6:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.1173401 West, latitude 19.6081657 North, depth = 6 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70280581. Id of event: hv70280581. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/18 / 2018-06-17 16:25:29 / June 17, 2018 @ 4:25 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Waimea, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 5 km N of Mountain View, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.77 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1173401° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6081657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km N of Mountain View, 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 16:25:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-17 16:37:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 219 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 321 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 hv70280581 Id of event.
Event Code 70280581 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70280581, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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