Minor earthquake: M3.43 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Event id: hv71509242. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71509242. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 03:40:03 / May 12, 2020 @ 3:40 am. Exact location of earthquake, -155.1776733° West, 18.9009991° North, depth 7.23 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.23 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 17:40:03 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 46 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.1776733° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9009991° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km 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	2020-05-12 03:40:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-12 03:45:38	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	181	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3694	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	255	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	hv71509242	Id of event.
Event Code	71509242	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71509242,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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