Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag has occurred near Hawi in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Hawi in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.37 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.899826 West, latitude 20.4686661 North, depth = 10.37 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/02/19 / 2019-02-24 08:33:05 / February 24, 2019 @ 8:33 am. Unique identifier: hv70826076. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70826076. The temblor was reported at 22:33:05 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Kahului (c. 26 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kīhei (c. 20 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Wailuku (c. 15 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Haiku-Pauwela (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wailuku, Kahului, Kīhei (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 26 km NNW of Hawi, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.899826° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.4686661° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NNW of Hawi, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-02-24 08:33:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-24 08:38:48	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	135	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	180	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	hv70826076	Id of event.
Event Code	70826076	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70826076,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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