Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.3880005 West, latitude 19.5279999 North, depth = 8.64 km. The temblor was detected at 16:57:40 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv70088296. Event ids that are associated: hv70088296. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/18 / 2018-04-22 02:57:40 / April 22, 2018 @ 2:57 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.64 km (5 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 thirty-eight 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 43 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.3880005° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5279999° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-22 02:57:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-22 03:03:18	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	137	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4458	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	231	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	hv70088296	Id of event.
Event Code	70088296	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70088296,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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