Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Monday. The temblor was reported at 23:37:15 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.51 km (20 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70255576. Id of event: hv70255576. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/18 / 2018-06-12 09:37:15 / June 12, 2018 @ 9:37 am. Exact location, longitude -155.4853363° West, latitude 19.1881676° North, depth = 32.51 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty, in the past 30 days six hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km SSW of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.4853363° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1881676° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km SSW 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	2018-06-12 09:37:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-12 09:42:55	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	121	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09643	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	196	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	hv70255576	Id of event.
Event Code	70255576	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70255576,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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