Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag has occurred near Honoka‘a in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Honoka‘a in Hawaii on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.720000267029 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:52:04 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.51533508301 West, latitude 20.020666122436 North, depth = 10.720000267029 km. Event id: hv74501626. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74501626, us6000nz6w. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/24 / 2024-10-16 21:52:04 / October 16, 2024 @ 9:52 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kailua, Hōlualoa.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 8 km SW of Honoka‘a, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.51533508301° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.020666122436° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.720000267029 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km SW of Honoka‘a, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-16 21:52:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-16 21:58:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	144	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,us,	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	0.1714	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.280000001 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	hv74501626	Id of event.
Event Code	74501626	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74501626,us6000nz6w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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