Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Leilani Estates in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 243 km ESE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii (151 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/19 / 2019-08-05 09:52:25 / August 5, 2019 @ 9:52 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:52:25 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -152.8788333 West, latitude 18.4268333 North, depth = 9.99 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.99 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv71073067. Event ids that are associated: hv71073067.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 243 km ESE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-152.8788333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4268333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	243km ESE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-05 09:52:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-06 19:07:46	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	127	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.167	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	340	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv71073067	Id of event.
Event Code	71073067	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71073067,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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