Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Kalaoa in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kalaoa in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -155.8394928° West, 19.7858334° North, depth 12.66 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:20:36 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70907451. Unique identifier: hv70907451. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/19 / 2019-04-14 03:20:36 / April 14, 2019 @ 3:20 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.66 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Waimea, Kailua.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km ENE of Kalaoa, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.8394928° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7858334° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km ENE of Kalaoa, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-04-14 03:20:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-14 03:24:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	138	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1007	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	175	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv70907451	Id of event.
Event Code	70907451	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70907451,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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