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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.1723328S, -155.4711609WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.4711609° West, 19.1723328° North, depth 38.25 km. Id of earthquake: hv70499927. Event ids that are associated: hv70499927. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/18 / 2018-07-30 23:21:58 / July 30, 2018 @ 11:21 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:21:58 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.25 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hilo, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days two thousand and ninety-one and in the last 365 days four thousand, four hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. 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: 3 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4711609° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1723328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE 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 2018-07-30 23:21:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-30 23:27:38 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 150 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01888 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 hv70499927 Id of event.
Event Code 70499927 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70499927, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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