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Light earthquake 4 mag, 33 km NE of Kaneohe Station, Hawaii


Earthquake location 21.6358337S, -157.4968262WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Kaneohe Station in Hawaii. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: hv61909871. Unique identifier: hv61909871. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.3 km (8 miles). Global time and date of event 16/09/17 / 2017-09-16 06:40:37 / September 16, 2017 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -157.4968262° West, latitude 21.6358337° North, depth = 13.3 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:40:37 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mākaha, Wai‘anae, Mā‘ili (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Honolulu (c. 371 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Pearl City, Manana (c. 47 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Kailua (c. 38 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Waipahu (c. 38 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kāne‘ohe (c. 34 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mililani Town (c. 27 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km NE of Kaneohe Station, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -157.4968262° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.6358337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km NE of Kaneohe Station, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-16 06:40:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-16 06:47:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 43 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 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 260 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 hv61909871 Id of event.
Event Code 61909871 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61909871, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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