Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Waialua in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Waialua in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv71216441. Unique identifier: hv71216441. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.7 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 14:21:12 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/11/19 / 2019-11-05 00:21:12 / November 5, 2019 @ 12:21 am. Exact location of event, longitude -156.6566667 West, latitude 21.3208333 North, depth = 26.7 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kīhei, Pukalani, Makawao (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Kahului (c. 26 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kīhei (c. 20 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Wailuku (c. 15 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Lahaina (c. 11 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Waihee-Waiehu (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 26 km NNE of Waialua, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.6566667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	21.3208333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NNE of Waialua, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-05 00:21:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-05 04:21:29	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	reviewed	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	16	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	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	232	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	hv71216441	Id of event.
Event Code	71216441	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71216441,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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