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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2056675S, -155.3016663WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/06/18 / 2018-06-18 12:19:29 / June 18, 2018 @ 12:19 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -155.3016663 West, latitude 19.2056675 North, depth = 14.45 km. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:19:29 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70284461. Unique identifier: hv70284461. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.45 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-seven, in the last 10 days four hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 18 km E of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3016663° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2056675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km E 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 2018-06-18 12:19:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-18 12:25:12 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 124 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 318 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 hv70284461 Id of event.
Event Code 70284461 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70284461, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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