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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.1916667S, -155.677WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 01:01:53 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.677° West, 19.1916667° North, depth -1.3 km. Event id: hv71404252. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000861c, hv71404252. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/20 / 2020-02-28 11:01:53 / February 28, 2020 @ 11:01 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -1.3 km (-1 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hilo, Waikoloa Village. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 55 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 three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km NNE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.677° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1916667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.3 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 11:01:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-28 20:36:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 53 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.03 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 230 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 ,us,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07327 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 hv71404252 Id of event.
Event Code 71404252 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000861c,hv71404252, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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