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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Waimea in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.8968334S, -155.6063385WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Waimea in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 22:11:20 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.6063385 West, latitude 19.8968334 North, depth = 21.78 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70444507. Id of event: hv70444507. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 08:11:20 / July 19, 2018 @ 8:11 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.78 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hilo, Kailua (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days six hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fifty-two and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 15 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.6063385° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.8968334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-19 08:11:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-19 08:17:01 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 133 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 0.06243 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 hv70444507 Id of event.
Event Code 70444507 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70444507, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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