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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 1 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.1940002S, -155.4771729WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 20:55:39 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.4771729° West, 19.1940002° North, depth 33 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/07/18 / 2018-07-20 06:55:39 / July 20, 2018 @ 6:55 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: hv70449087. Event ids that are associated: hv70449087.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4771729° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1940002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km 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 2018-07-20 06:55:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-20 07:01:31 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 hv70449087 Id of event.
Event Code 70449087 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70449087, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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