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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag has occurred near Waimea in Hawaii


Earthquake location 20.0185S, -155.623WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Waimea in Hawaii on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 06:05:35 / September 4, 2016 @ 6:05 am. The temblor was detected at 20:05:35 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv61398651. Ids that are associated to the event: hv61398651. Exact location of earthquake, -155.623° West, 20.0185° North, depth 14.935 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.935 km (9 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Kailua, Hōlualoa. The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km E of Waimea, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.0185° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.935 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E of Waimea, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-04 06:05:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-05 03:48:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 25 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 reviewed 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 176 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 0.07084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 hv61398651 Id of event.
Event Code 61398651 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61398651, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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