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Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4126667S, -155.6216667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/10/17 / 2017-10-29 19:56:22 / October 29, 2017 @ 7:56 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv61960456. Unique identifier: hv61960456. Exact location of event, longitude -155.6216667 West, latitude 19.4126667 North, depth = 3.002 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:56:22 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.002 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 46 km (29 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), 52 km (32 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.6216667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4126667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.002 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 2017-10-29 19:56:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-30 03:05:06 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 130 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 hv61960456 Id of event.
Event Code 61960456 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61960456, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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