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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9013329S, -155.2084961WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 13:10:38 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/03/20 / 2020-03-23 23:10:38 / March 23, 2020 @ 11:10 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2084961 West, latitude 18.9013329 North, depth = 10.67 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.67 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71442902. Id of event: hv71442902.

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 44 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2084961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9013329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SE 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 2020-03-23 23:10:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-23 23:14:04 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 132 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 262 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 hv71442902 Id of event.
Event Code 71442902 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71442902, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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