Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Waimea in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Waimea in Hawaii on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 13:43:42 / March 24, 2019 @ 1:43 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:43:42 / 3:43 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70882932. Id of event: hv70882932. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.5 km (10 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.5566711 West, latitude 19.7618332 North, depth = 16.5 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hilo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days four thousand, eight hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 31 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.5566711° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7618332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-24 13:43:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-24 14:01:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	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	127	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02312	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	hv70882932	Id of event.
Event Code	70882932	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70882932,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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