Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag was detected near Honoka’a in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Honoka’a in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 10:02:58 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.3690033° West, 19.8496666° North, depth 13.93 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/08/19 / 2019-08-11 20:02:58 / August 11, 2019 @ 8:02 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71083692. Id of event: hv71083692. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.93 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Kalaoa (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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 27 km SSE of Honoka’a, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.3690033° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.8496666° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SSE 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	2019-08-11 20:02:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-11 20:09:18	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	3.1	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	143	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	0.04639	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	hv71083692	Id of event.
Event Code	71083692	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71083692,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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