Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Kahaluu-Keauhou in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kahaluu-Keauhou in Hawaii. Event id: hv71127042. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71127042. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/09/19 / 2019-09-05 15:20:09 / September 5, 2019 @ 3:20 pm. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:20:09 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.73 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.0281677 West, latitude 19.5534992 North, depth = 43.73 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 7 km WSW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.0281677° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5534992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km WSW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-05 15:20:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-05 15:23:32	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	128	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1233	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	270	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	hv71127042	Id of event.
Event Code	71127042	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71127042,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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