Minor earthquake 2.96 mag, 44 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 44 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii (27 miles) on Saturday. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:50:21 / 5:50 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70001997. Id of event: hv70001997. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.49 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.3938293° West, latitude 18.8099995° North, depth = 28.49 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/17 / 2017-12-31 03:50:21 / December 31, 2017 @ 3:50 am.

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-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.3938293° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8099995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km 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	2017-12-31 03:50:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-31 03:53:57	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	135	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3094	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	270	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv70001997	Id of event.
Event Code	70001997	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70001997,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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