Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 06:18:15 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv61816781. Event ids that are associated: hv61816781. Global time and date of event 29/06/17 / 2017-06-29 16:18:15 / June 29, 2017 @ 4:18 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2953339° West, 18.8528328° North, depth 11.77 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.77 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 43 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2953339° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8528328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-29 16:18:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-29 16:24:00	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	151	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	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3349	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	260	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	hv61816781	Id of event.
Event Code	61816781	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61816781,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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