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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag was detected near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.375S, -154.8748322WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv71483432. Unique identifier: hv71483432. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 06:52:08 / April 21, 2020 @ 6:52 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.25 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:52:08 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 6.25 km, -154.8748322° West, 19.375° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km SSE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.8748322° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-21 06:52:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-21 06:58:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 125 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 hv71483432 Id of event.
Event Code 71483432 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71483432, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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