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Minor earthquake, 3.76 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.1916667S, -155.4978333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.76 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 07:29:40 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 17:29:40 / July 27, 2018 @ 5:29 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70484807. Unique identifier: hv70484807. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.55 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.4978333° West, latitude 19.1916667° North, depth = 35.55 km.

The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 72 km (45 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), 78 km (49 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Hilo, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-eight, in the last 10 days seven hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days two thousand, two hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days four thousand, three hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km SW of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.76 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4978333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1916667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SW 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 2018-07-27 17:29:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-28 02:03:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.04 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 reviewed 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 218 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 0.02547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 hv70484807 Id of event.
Event Code 70484807 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70484807, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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