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Minor earthquake 2.85 mag, 27 km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4273338S, -155.6018372WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -2.32 km (-1 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70516897. Id of event: hv70516897. Exact location of event, longitude -155.6018372 West, latitude 19.4273338 North, depth = -2.32 km. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:17:27 / 5:17 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/08/18 / 2018-08-03 15:17:27 / August 3, 2018 @ 3:17 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 27 km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.6018372° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4273338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -2.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-03 15:17:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-03 15:23:09 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 125 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03449 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 hv70516897 Id of event.
Event Code 70516897 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70516897, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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