Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag has occurred near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 20:50:32 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 20:50:32 / August 23, 2020 @ 8:50 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.919998168945 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 34.919998168945 km, -155.46916198731° West, 19.196666717529° North. All ids that are associated to the event: hv72101386, us6000bji1. Unique identifier: hv72101386.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hilo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km SE of Pāhala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.46916198731° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.196666717529° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.919998168945 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km SE of Pāhala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-23 20:50:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-23 20:58:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	151	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	53	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	96	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	hv72101386	Id of event.
Event Code	72101386	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72101386,us6000bji1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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