Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 09:58:30 / May 15, 2020 @ 9:58 am. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:58:30 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.02 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.3673401 West, latitude 19.5191669 North, depth = 9.02 km. Id of earthquake: hv71514072. Event ids that are associated: hv71514072.

The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby 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 Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Hōlualoa.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.3673401° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5191669° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-15 09:58:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-15 10:04:08	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	128	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5276	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	237	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	hv71514072	Id of event.
Event Code	71514072	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71514072,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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