Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.65 mag has occurred near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3803329S, -155.4993286WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.65 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 20:33:54 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/05/18 / 2018-05-23 06:33:54 / May 23, 2018 @ 6:33 am. Exact location of event, longitude -155.4993286 West, latitude 19.3803329 North, depth = 11.01 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70183362. Id of event: hv70183362. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.01 km (7 miles).

The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-two, in the past 30 days three hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

How would you describe the shaking?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km N of Pahala, Hawaii.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.65 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4993286° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3803329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km N 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 2018-05-23 06:33:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-23 06:40:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 205 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 hv70183362 Id of event.
Event Code 70183362 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70183362, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply