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Light earthquake 4 mag, 137 km SSW of Lana’i City, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.6986S, -157.4659WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 137 km SSW of Lana’i City, Hawaii (85 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:51:09 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61946691, us1000aszk. Id of event: us1000aszk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.5 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/17 / 2017-10-16 17:51:09 / October 16, 2017 @ 5:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -157.4659° West, 19.6986° North, depth 16.5 km.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 137 km SSW of Lana’i City, Hawaii. This data 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 -157.4659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137km SSW of Lana'i City, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-16 17:51:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-16 20:07:42 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 1.98 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 246 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 ,hv,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 1.366 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 205 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 us1000aszk Id of event.
Event Code 1000aszk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61946691,us1000aszk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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