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Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2420006S, -155.406662WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 20/07/18 / 2018-07-20 07:08:17 / July 20, 2018 @ 7:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -155.406662° West, 19.2420006° North, depth 35.33 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70449122. Id of event: hv70449122. The temblor was reported at 21:08:17 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.33 km (22 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). 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), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred, in the last 10 days six hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and eighty and in the last 365 days three thousand, seven hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.406662° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2420006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.33 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 2018-07-20 07:08:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-20 07:11:34 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 121 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70449122 Id of event.
Event Code 70449122 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70449122, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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