Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Fern Acres in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Fern Acres in Hawaii. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:36:31 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.0570068° West, latitude 19.4136658° North, depth = 22.98 km. Id of earthquake: hv71361197. Event ids that are associated: hv71361197. The epicenter was at a depth of 22.98 km (14 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 15:36:31 / January 31, 2020 @ 3:36 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

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 six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.0570068° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4136658° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SSE of Fern Acres, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-31 15:36:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-31 15:42:05	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	129	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	0.1548	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	319	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	hv71361197	Id of event.
Event Code	71361197	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71361197,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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