Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 20/07/18 / 2018-07-20 07:08:17 / July 20, 2018 @ 7:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -155.406662° West, 19.2420006° North, depth 35.33 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70449122. Id of event: hv70449122. The temblor was reported at 21:08:17 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.33 km (22 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 and in the last 365 days three thousand, seven hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 8 km ENE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.406662° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2420006° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km ENE 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 07:08:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-20 07:11:34	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.009744	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv70449122	Id of event.
Event Code	70449122	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70449122,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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