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Light earthquake, 4.14 mag strikes near Fern Forest in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.34049987793S, -155.11749267578WA light earthquake magnitude 4.14 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Fern Forest in Hawaii. The 4.14-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:18:49 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/20 / 2020-07-04 00:18:49 / July 4, 2020 @ 12:18 am. Exact location of event, depth 6.3099999427795 km, -155.11749267578° West, 19.34049987793° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: hv72028657. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20186050, hv72028657. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.3099999427795 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: 13 km S of Fern Forest, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.11749267578° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.34049987793° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.3099999427795 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km S of Fern Forest, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-04 00:18:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-04 00:25:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 270 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 ,pt,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.129999995 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 hv72028657 Id of event.
Event Code 72028657 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20186050,hv72028657, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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