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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Hawaii region, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4004993S, -155.2769928WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Hawaii region, Hawaii kilometers (0 miles) from Hawaii region, Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2769928° West, 19.4004993° North, depth 1.64 km. The temblor was reported at 13:06:00 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/18 / 2018-07-17 13:06:00 / July 17, 2018 @ 1:06 pm. Unique identifier: hv70435827. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70435827. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.64 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Hawaii region, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2769928° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4004993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Hawaii region, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-17 13:06:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-17 13:11:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 126 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 hv70435827 Id of event.
Event Code 70435827 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70435827, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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