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Light earthquake: M4.06 quake has struck near Fern Acres in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3205S, -154.9758333WA light earthquake magnitude 4.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Fern Acres in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dym5, hv70118241. Id of event: hv70118241. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 06:11:08 / May 5, 2018 @ 6:11 am. Exact location of earthquake, -154.9758333° West, 19.3205° North, depth 2.35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.35 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:11:08 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-nine, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days ninety-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: 4 km SE of Fern Acres, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.9758333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of Fern Acres, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-05 06:11:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-05 08:12:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 68 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.26 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 279 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 ,us,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1157 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 261 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 hv70118241 Id of event.
Event Code 70118241 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dym5,hv70118241, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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