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Minor earthquake 3.61 mag, 24 km ENE of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.5170002S, -155.6640015WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii on Monday. Id of earthquake: hv70640477. Event ids that are associated: hv70640477, us1000h98i. The temblor was detected at 22:54:50 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.6640015° West, 19.5170002° North, depth 2.47 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.47 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/10/18 / 2018-10-09 08:54:50 / October 9, 2018 @ 8:54 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hilo. Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 24 km ENE of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.61 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.6640015° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5170002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 2018-10-09 08:54:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-09 09:01:02 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 3.65 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 200 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03055 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 hv70640477 Id of event.
Event Code 70640477 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70640477,us1000h98i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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