Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag was detected near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.35 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:13:59 / 12:13 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv70413917. Event ids that are associated: hv70413917, us2000g3j2. Exact location of event, depth 11.35 km, -155.9974976° West, 19.6688328° North. Global time and date of event 12/07/18 / 2018-07-12 22:13:59 / July 12, 2018 @ 10:13 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 3 km (2 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fifty-three, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and seven and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.14 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.9974976° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.6688328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km N 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	2018-07-12 22:13:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-12 22:25:42	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	152	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1533	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	179	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	hv70413917	Id of event.
Event Code	70413917	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70413917,us2000g3j2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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