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Minor earthquake: M3.15 quake has struck near Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.414S, -155.624WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 22:31:02 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.732 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -155.624° West, 19.414° North, depth 2.732 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/03/17 / 2017-03-09 08:31:02 / March 9, 2017 @ 8:31 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61635831. Id of event: hv61635831.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.624° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.414° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.732 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-09 08:31:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-09 21:44:55 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 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 153 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 hv61635831 Id of event.
Event Code 61635831 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61635831, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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