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Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag strikes near Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.0308342S, -156.2129974WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 11:55:48 / March 12, 2016 @ 11:55 am. Exact location of event, longitude -156.2129974 West, latitude 19.0308342 North, depth = 10.47 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61201366. Id of event: hv61201366. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.47 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:55:48 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 47 km W of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.2129974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0308342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km W of Hawaiian Ocean View, 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 11:55:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 12:02:14 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 165 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 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 hv61201366 Id of event.
Event Code 61201366 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61201366, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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