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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag was detected near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.6246662S, -156.0296631WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 03:21:31 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -156.0296631° West, 19.6246662° North, depth 11.65 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.65 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 13:21:31 / July 6, 2018 @ 1:21 pm. Unique identifier: hv70372526. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70372526.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 4 km (3 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-four, in the last 10 days eight hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and ten and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.0296631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6246662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-06 13:21:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-06 13:27:09 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 136 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1725 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 228 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 hv70372526 Id of event.
Event Code 70372526 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70372526, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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