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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag has occurred near Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.5119991S, -155.7368317WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/18 / 2018-08-01 08:07:55 / August 1, 2018 @ 8:07 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70506532. Id of event: hv70506532. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.89 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.7368317° West, latitude 19.5119991° North, depth = 3.89 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:07:55 / 10:07 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Waimea, Waikoloa Village. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days two thousand and fifty-one and in the last 365 days four thousand, five hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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: 14 km ENE of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.7368317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5119991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE 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 2018-08-01 08:07:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-01 08:13:39 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 124 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 0.03305 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 hv70506532 Id of event.
Event Code 70506532 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70506532, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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