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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag has occurred near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9166667S, -155.235WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 20:29:17 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61523627. Id of event: hv61523627. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.595 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.235° West, latitude 18.9166667° North, depth = 12.595 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/06/17 / 2017-06-12 06:29:17 / June 12, 2017 @ 6:29 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 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).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 41 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.235° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9166667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.595 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SE 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 2017-06-12 06:29:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-14 02:52:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 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 128 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 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 hv61523627 Id of event.
Event Code 61523627 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61523627, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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