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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.7057S, -156.1389WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 23:01:59 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007rhv. Unique identifier: us10007rhv. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -156.1389° West, 19.7057° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/01/17 / 2017-01-05 09:01:59 / January 5, 2017 @ 9:01 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 16 km WNW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.1389° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7057° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-05 09:01:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-05 22:05:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 135 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us10007rhv Id of event.
Event Code 10007rhv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rhv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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