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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.0400009S, -155.4256592WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.4256592° West, 19.0400009° North, depth 34.9 km. Id of earthquake: hv61117486. Event ids that are associated: hv61117486. The temblor was detected at 20:08:51 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/11/15 / 2015-11-30 06:08:51 / November 30, 2015 @ 6:08 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.9 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 19 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4256592° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0400009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2015-11-30 06:08:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-30 06:15:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 141 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 hv61117486 Id of event.
Event Code 61117486 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61117486, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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