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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2128334S, -155.6078339WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70225947. Unique identifier: hv70225947. Exact location of event, longitude -155.6078339 West, latitude 19.2128334 North, depth = 4.19 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.19 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/06/18 / 2018-06-03 11:03:20 / June 3, 2018 @ 11:03 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:03:20 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). 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 Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kalaoa, Kailua.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.6078339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2128334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km W 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 2018-06-03 11:03:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-03 11:09:01 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 129 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03378 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 95 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 hv70225947 Id of event.
Event Code 70225947 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70225947, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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