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Minor earthquake, 3.49 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2385006S, -155.4105072WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 08:48:40 / July 18, 2018 @ 8:48 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.98 km (23 miles). The 3.49-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:48:40 / 10:48 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70439817. Unique identifier: hv70439817. Exact location of event, longitude -155.4105072 West, latitude 19.2385006 North, depth = 36.98 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and seventy-eight and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and fourty-nine 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. 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: 8 km ENE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.49 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4105072° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2385006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE 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 2018-07-18 08:48:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-18 08:54:20 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 187 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 hv70439817 Id of event.
Event Code 70439817 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70439817, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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