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Minor earthquake: M3.42 quake has struck near Kualapu’u in Hawaii


Earthquake location 21.4958333S, -157.1495WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Kualapu’u in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv71043952. Event ids that are associated: hv71043952. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.02 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/07/19 / 2019-07-12 17:21:24 / July 12, 2019 @ 5:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 13.02 km, -157.1495° West, 21.4958333° North. The temblor was reported at 07:21:24 / 7:21 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Honolulu (c. 371 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Kailua (c. 38 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kāne‘ohe (c. 34 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Hālawa (c. 14 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Waimalu (c. 13 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimalu, ‘Aiea, Lā‘ie (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km NNW of Kualapu’u, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -157.1495° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.4958333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NNW of Kualapu'u, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-12 17:21:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-15 10:51:54 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 180 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 hv71043952 Id of event.
Event Code 71043952 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71043952, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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