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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Fern Acres in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4801S, -155.0553WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Fern Acres in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 20:11:10 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -155.0553° West, 19.4801° North, depth 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dym5. Id of event: us1000dym5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 06:11:10 / May 5, 2018 @ 6:11 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Waimea, Hilo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-six, in the last 10 days ninety-four, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 4 km SE of Fern Acres, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.0553° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4801° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of Fern Acres, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-05 06:11:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-05 06:37:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 49 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.26 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 317 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dym5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dym5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dym5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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