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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9121667S, -155.365WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.365° West, 18.9121667° North, depth 10.88 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/03/18 / 2018-03-28 01:43:02 / March 28, 2018 @ 1:43 am. Unique identifier: hv70063976. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70063976. The temblor was picked up at 15:43:02 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.88 km (7 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9121667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km 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 2018-03-28 01:43:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-28 03:20:49 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 143 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2588 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 268 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 hv70063976 Id of event.
Event Code 70063976 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70063976, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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