Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.4711609° West, 19.1723328° North, depth 38.25 km. Id of earthquake: hv70499927. Event ids that are associated: hv70499927. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/18 / 2018-07-30 23:21:58 / July 30, 2018 @ 11:21 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:21:58 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.25 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hilo, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (47 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), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days two thousand and ninety-one and in the last 365 days four thousand, four hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 3 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.4711609° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1723328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km 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	2018-07-30 23:21:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-30 23:27:38	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	150	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01888	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	hv70499927	Id of event.
Event Code	70499927	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70499927,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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