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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2134991S, -155.4188385WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.57 km (21 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 09:49:29 / July 16, 2018 @ 9:49 am. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:49:29 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.4188385° West, latitude 19.2134991° North, depth = 34.57 km. Event id: hv70430462. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70430462.

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hōlualoa.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days seven hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and thirty-five and in the last 365 days three thousand, five hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 6 km E of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4188385° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2134991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km E 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 2018-07-16 09:49:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-16 09:55:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 178 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 hv70430462 Id of event.
Event Code 70430462 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70430462, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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