Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 39 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii (24 miles) on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -155.3691711 West, latitude 18.8656673 North, depth = 9.22 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.22 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: hv70062486. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70062486. Global time and date of event 26/03/18 / 2018-03-26 12:11:54 / March 26, 2018 @ 12:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 02:11:54 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.3691711° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8656673° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km 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	2018-03-26 12:11:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-26 12:17:32	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	137	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3013	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	294	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	hv70062486	Id of event.
Event Code	70062486	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70062486,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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