Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Fern Acres in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Fern Acres in Hawaii on Wednesday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:29:40 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/18 / 2018-05-31 08:29:40 / May 31, 2018 @ 8:29 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.72 km (7 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.0973° West, latitude 19.4116° North, depth = 11.72 km. Unique identifier: us1000efe7. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000efe7.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one thousand, five hundred and three, in the last 10 days one thousand, six hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days two thousand and twelve and in the last 365 days two thousand and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 11 km S of Fern Acres, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.0973° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4116° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km 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	2018-05-31 08:29:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-27 07:14:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	14	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	reviewed	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.037	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us1000efe7	Id of event.
Event Code	1000efe7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000efe7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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