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Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4093342S, -154.9803314WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 01:13:33 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70102311. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70102311. Global time and date of event 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 11:13:33 / May 1, 2018 @ 11:13 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.39 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -154.9803314 West, latitude 19.4093342 North, depth = 2.39 km.

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby 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 Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 9 km SW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.9803314° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4093342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-01 11:13:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-01 11:26:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 128 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 hv70102311 Id of event.
Event Code 70102311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70102311, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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