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Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Waikoloa Village in Hawaii


Earthquake location 20.0533333S, -155.9351654WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Waikoloa Village in Hawaii on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 07:27:58 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.27 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 17:27:58 / December 8, 2016 @ 5:27 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61511656. Id of event: hv61511656. Exact location, longitude -155.9351654° West, latitude 20.0533333° North, depth = 34.27 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Kailua, Kalaoa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km NW of Waikoloa Village, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.9351654° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.0533333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NW of Waikoloa Village, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-08 17:27:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-08 17:31:26 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 130 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1647 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv61511656 Id of event.
Event Code 61511656 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61511656, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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