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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.1958332S, -155.4824982WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.65 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:51:26 / 3:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/18 / 2018-07-15 13:51:26 / July 15, 2018 @ 1:51 pm. Event id: hv70426682. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70426682. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.4824982 West, latitude 19.1958332 North, depth = 35.65 km.

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred, in the last 10 days seven hundred and sixty-one, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days three thousand, four hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 1 km SSW of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4824982° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1958332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSW 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 2018-07-15 13:51:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-15 13:57:08 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 hv70426682 Id of event.
Event Code 70426682 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70426682, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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