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Light earthquake, 4.66 mag strikes near Fern Forest in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.330333709717S, -155.12916564941WA light earthquake magnitude 4.66 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Fern Forest in Hawaii. Exact location of event, depth 1.2400000095367 km, -155.12916564941° West, 19.330333709717° North. The temblor was picked up at 10:52:44 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/08/24 / 2024-08-22 10:52:44 / August 22, 2024 @ 10:52 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: hv74419396. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74419396, pt24235050. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.2400000095367 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Kailua. The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 14 km S of Fern Forest, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.66 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.12916564941° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.330333709717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.2400000095367 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km S of Fern Forest, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-22 10:52:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-22 10:56:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 336 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,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04424 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.310000002 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 hv74419396 Id of event.
Event Code 74419396 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74419396,pt24235050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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