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Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag has occurred near Hawaiian Paradise Park in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.9093342S, -154.5704956WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park in Hawaii on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -154.5704956° West, latitude 19.9093342° North, depth = 17.39 km. The temblor was detected at 03:53:42 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv61872241. Event ids that are associated: hv61872241. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.39 km (11 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/08/17 / 2017-08-16 13:53:42 / August 16, 2017 @ 1:53 pm.

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km NE of Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.5704956° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.9093342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km NE of Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-16 13:53:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-16 14:00:27 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 1 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 194 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 57 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 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 295 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 hv61872241 Id of event.
Event Code 61872241 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61872241, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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