Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Ainaloa in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ainaloa in Hawaii. Exact location of event, longitude -154.9830017 West, latitude 19.5011673 North, depth = 46.32 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 46.32 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 01:38:41 / December 29, 2015 @ 1:38 am. The temblor was reported at 15:38:41 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: hv61137146. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61137146.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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 SSE of Ainaloa, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-154.9830017° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5011673° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SSE of Ainaloa, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-29 01:38:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-29 01:44:56	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	162	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0701	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	233	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	hv61137146	Id of event.
Event Code	61137146	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61137146,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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