Minor earthquake: M3.48 quake has struck near Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.48 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 3 km (2 miles). The 3.48-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:40:30 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv61956721. Ids that are associated to the event: hv61956721. Exact location of earthquake, -155.6264954° West, 19.4095001° North, depth 3 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/17 / 2017-10-26 10:40:30 / October 26, 2017 @ 10:40 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea. Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 70 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).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km ESE of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.48 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.6264954° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4095001° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km ESE 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	2017-10-26 10:40:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-26 10:46:20	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	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	186	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0068	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	hv61956721	Id of event.
Event Code	61956721	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61956721,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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