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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Pahala in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.765S, -155.3066WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:11:41 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.3066° West, latitude 18.765° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 13:11:41 / May 5, 2018 @ 1:11 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dyt1. Id of event: us1000dyt1.

Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and three, in the past 30 days one hundred and five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 52 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3066° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km SSE 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 2018-05-05 13:11:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-05 13:34:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.36 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 reviewed 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 247 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 311 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 us1000dyt1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dyt1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dyt1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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