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Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.8531666S, -155.209671WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Sunday. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:13:38 / 11:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/10/18 / 2018-10-14 21:13:38 / October 14, 2018 @ 9:13 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -155.209671° West, 18.8531666° North, depth 11.12 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70652677. Unique identifier: hv70652677. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 48 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.209671° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8531666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km SE 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 2018-10-14 21:13:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-14 21:19:28 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 162 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 258 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 hv70652677 Id of event.
Event Code 70652677 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70652677, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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