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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 6 km NW of Hana, Hawaii


Earthquake location 20.7980003S, -156.0305023WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Hana in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.34 km (13 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:33:31 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv71001566. Unique identifier: hv71001566. Global time and date of event 20/06/19 / 2019-06-20 12:33:31 / June 20, 2019 @ 12:33 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.0305023 West, latitude 20.7980003 North, depth = 21.34 km.

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Kahului (c. 26 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Kīhei (c. 20 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Wailuku (c. 15 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lahaina (c. 11 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Waihee-Waiehu (c. 8 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Napili-Honokowai, Lahaina, Waihee-Waiehu (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km NW of Hana, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.0305023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.7980003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW of Hana, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-20 12:33:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-20 12:39:11 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 137 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 47 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 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 hv71001566 Id of event.
Event Code 71001566 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71001566, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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