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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Waikoloa Village in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.7602S, -155.7858WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Waikoloa Village in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.7858 West, latitude 19.7602 North, depth = 16.35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.35 km (10 miles). Global time and date of event 19/04/19 / 2019-04-19 00:27:58 / April 19, 2019 @ 12:27 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003902. Id of event: us70003902. The temblor was detected at 14:27:58 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Waimea, Kailua. Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km SSE of Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.7858° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7602° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSE of Waikoloa Village, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-19 00:27:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-20 04:05:22 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 reviewed 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 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us70003902 Id of event.
Event Code 70003902 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003902, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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