Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Honoka’a in Hawaii

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Honoka’a in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.75 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000h5pg. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000h5pg. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:22:51 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.3637 West, latitude 19.9592 North, depth = 16.75 km. Global time and date of event 30/08/18 / 2018-08-30 17:22:51 / August 30, 2018 @ 5:22 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Kalaoa. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 38 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 17 km SE of Honoka’a, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.3637° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.9592° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SE of Honoka'a, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-30 17:22:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-30 21:38:43	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	reviewed	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.075	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us2000h5pg	Id of event.
Event Code	2000h5pg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000h5pg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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