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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 16 km SW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3688335S, -155.0288391WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 07:35:52 / 7:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.0288391° West, latitude 19.3688335° North, depth = -0.99 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.99 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 17:35:52 / May 5, 2018 @ 5:35 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv70120476. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70120476.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and five, in the past 30 days one hundred and seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.0288391° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3688335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SW 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 2018-05-05 17:35:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-05 17:42:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 250 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 hv70120476 Id of event.
Event Code 70120476 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70120476, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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