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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2455006S, -155.3916626WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.26 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70885351. Id of event: hv70885351. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:49:02 / 7:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.3916626 West, latitude 19.2455006 North, depth = 31.26 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/03/19 / 2019-03-31 17:49:02 / March 31, 2019 @ 5:49 pm.

The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days four thousand, eight hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km ENE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3916626° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2455006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2019-03-31 17:49:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-31 18:13:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 149 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00968 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 135 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 hv70885351 Id of event.
Event Code 70885351 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70885351, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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