Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -155.1994934 West, latitude 18.8516674 North, depth = 10.62 km. Event id: hv61993326. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61993326. The temblor was detected at 01:01:27 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 11:01:27 / December 1, 2017 @ 11:01 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.62 km (7 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

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 sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.1994934° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8516674° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km 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	2017-12-01 11:01:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-01 11:07:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	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	130	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	62	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	262	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	hv61993326	Id of event.
Event Code	61993326	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61993326,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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