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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Hawaiian Ocean View in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9300003S, -155.5509949WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) strikes 27 km SE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii (17 miles) on Thursday. Id of earthquake: hv61503531. Event ids that are associated: hv61503531. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.43 km (26 miles). The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:44:59 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/16 / 2016-12-02 04:44:59 / December 2, 2016 @ 4:44 am. Exact location, longitude -155.5509949° West, latitude 18.9300003° North, depth = 42.43 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 27 km SE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.5509949° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9300003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SE 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 2016-12-02 04:44:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-02 04:50:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 122 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 0.121 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 hv61503531 Id of event.
Event Code 61503531 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61503531, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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