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Minor earthquake: M3.08 quake has struck near Waimea in Hawaii


Earthquake location 20.1138325S, -155.6896667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Waimea in Hawaii on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/19 / 2019-11-09 15:48:42 / November 9, 2019 @ 3:48 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -155.6896667 West, latitude 20.1138325 North, depth = 23.04 km. Id of earthquake: hv71223796. Event ids that are associated: hv71223796. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:48:42 / 5:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.04 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km N of Waimea, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.6896667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.1138325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N 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 2019-11-09 15:48:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-09 15:54:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 150 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08341 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 299 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 hv71223796 Id of event.
Event Code 71223796 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71223796, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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