Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag strikes near Kalaoa in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Kalaoa in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 00:55:59 / December 10, 2016 @ 12:55 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.1128333 West, latitude 19.7113333 North, depth = 11.45 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:55:59 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv61513266. Event ids that are associated: hv61513266. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.45 km (7 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 13 km W of Kalaoa, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.02 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.1128333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7113333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km W of Kalaoa, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-10 00:55:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-10 02:50:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	141	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1071	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	245	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	hv61513266	Id of event.
Event Code	61513266	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61513266,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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