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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag strikes near Pāhala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.24383354187S, -155.40882873535WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. Exact location, longitude -155.40882873535° West, latitude 19.24383354187° North, depth = 31.989999771118 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/20 / 2020-11-21 16:26:45 / November 21, 2020 @ 4:26 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:26:45 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.989999771118 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: hv72239587. Unique identifier: hv72239587.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.40882873535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.24383354187° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.989999771118 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ENE 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 2020-11-21 16:26:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-21 16:32:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.848 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 166 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 45 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 0.180000007 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 hv72239587 Id of event.
Event Code 72239587 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv72239587, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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