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Minor earthquake, 3.47 mag strikes near Leilani Estates in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.451334S, -154.8690033WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 00:43:59 / 12:43 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 10:43:59 / May 21, 2018 @ 10:43 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70168951. Unique identifier: hv70168951. Exact location, longitude -154.8690033° West, latitude 19.451334° North, depth = 4.78 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.78 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km ESE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.8690033° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.451334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ESE 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 2018-05-21 10:43:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-21 10:55:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 187 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03421 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 hv70168951 Id of event.
Event Code 70168951 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70168951, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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