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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2111S, -155.6651WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -155.6651° West, 19.2111° North. The temblor was detected at 01:01:54 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000861c. Event ids that are associated: us6000861c. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/20 / 2020-02-28 11:01:54 / February 28, 2020 @ 11:01 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hilo, Waikoloa Village. Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 18 km NNE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.6651° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2111° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-28 11:01:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-28 11:29:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.671 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 215 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.091 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000861c Id of event.
Event Code 6000861c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000861c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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