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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.885334S, -155.2111664WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Exact location of event, depth 12.62 km, -155.2111664° West, 18.885334° North. Id of earthquake: hv71508327. Event ids that are associated: hv71508327. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.62 km (8 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:09:35 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/05/20 / 2020-05-11 16:09:35 / May 11, 2020 @ 4:09 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2111664° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.885334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2020-05-11 16:09:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-11 16:15:11 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 138 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 256 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 hv71508327 Id of event.
Event Code 71508327 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71508327, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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