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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 5 km SE of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4231663S, -155.8309937WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70442332. Id of event: hv70442332. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.78 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 11:19:46 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 21:19:46 / July 18, 2018 @ 9:19 pm. Exact location, longitude -155.8309937° West, latitude 19.4231663° North, depth = 6.78 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa. Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 5 km SE of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.8309937° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4231663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE 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 2018-07-18 21:19:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-18 21:25:28 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 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 355 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 hv70442332 Id of event.
Event Code 70442332 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70442332, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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