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Minor earthquake: M2.87 quake has struck near Waimea in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.836834S, -155.5531616WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Waimea in Hawaii. Event id: hv70358976. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70358976. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.5 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:19:28 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.5531616 West, latitude 19.836834 North, depth = 12.5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/18 / 2018-07-03 18:19:28 / July 3, 2018 @ 6:19 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days nine hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.5531616° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.836834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-03 18:19:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-03 18:22:47 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 127 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 hv70358976 Id of event.
Event Code 70358976 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70358976, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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