Minor earthquake, 3.96 mag strikes near Lana’i City in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 141 km SSW of Lana’i City, Hawaii (88 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/17 / 2017-10-16 17:51:12 / October 16, 2017 @ 5:51 pm. Event id: hv61946691. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61946691. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 3.96-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:51:12 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.123 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -157.4778333° West, latitude 19.6641667° North, depth = 5.123 km.

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

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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: 141 km SSW of Lana’i City, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-157.4778333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.6641667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.123 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	141km 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 17:51:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-16 19:52:37	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	1.8	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	241	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	hv61946691	Id of event.
Event Code	61946691	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61946691,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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