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Minor earthquake 3.32 mag, 5 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.1561661S, -155.465332WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -155.465332 West, latitude 19.1561661 North, depth = 9.39 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70326961. Unique identifier: hv70326961. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.39 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 04:50:45 / June 27, 2018 @ 4:50 am UTC/GMT. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:50:45 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hilo, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ten, in the last 10 days nine hundred and five, in the past 30 days one thousand, five hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days two thousand and twenty 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.465332° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1561661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2018-06-27 04:50:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-27 05:01:13 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 2.2 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 170 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00313 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 hv70326961 Id of event.
Event Code 70326961 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70326961, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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