Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag has occurred near Kapaau in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Kapaau in Hawaii on Friday. Unique identifier: hv61201031. Ids that are associated to the event: hv61201031. Exact location, longitude -155.798996° West, latitude 20.4230003° North, depth = 16.15 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 05:36:13 / March 12, 2016 @ 5:36 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:36:13 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.15 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Kīhei (c. 20 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Haiku-Pauwela (c. 8 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Pukalani (c. 7 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Makawao (c. 7 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kīhei, Haiku-Pauwela, Pukalani (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km N of Kapaau, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.798996° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.4230003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km N of Kapaau, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-12 05:36:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-12 05:40:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	132	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2969	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv61201031	Id of event.
Event Code	61201031	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61201031,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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