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Minor earthquake, 2.8499999 mag has occurred near Pāhala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.173166275024S, -155.47782897949WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8499999 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 19:57:08 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv72299902. Unique identifier: hv72299902. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.540000915527 km (20 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.47782897949° West, latitude 19.173166275024° North, depth = 32.540000915527 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/20 / 2020-12-25 19:57:08 / December 25, 2020 @ 7:57 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 3 km S of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8499999 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.47782897949° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.173166275024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.540000915527 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km S 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 2020-12-25 19:57:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-25 20:00:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 125 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 52 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 0.109999999 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv72299902 Id of event.
Event Code 72299902 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv72299902, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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