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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Pepeekeo in Hawaii


Earthquake location 20.0249996S, -155.1315002WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Pepeekeo in Hawaii on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.1315002 West, latitude 20.0249996 North, depth = 15.96 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70419892. Id of event: hv70419892. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/07/18 / 2018-07-14 05:17:01 / July 14, 2018 @ 5:17 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.96 km (10 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:17:01 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days three thousand, three hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km N of Pepeekeo, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1315002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.0249996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km N of Pepeekeo, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-14 05:17:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-14 05:28:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 129 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2392 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 233 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 hv70419892 Id of event.
Event Code 70419892 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70419892, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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