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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag has occurred near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9773333S, -155.4538333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/01/19 / 2019-01-23 10:09:00 / January 23, 2019 @ 10:09 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.14 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70780761, us2000j7pv. Unique identifier: hv70780761. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.4538333 West, latitude 18.9773333 North, depth = 33.14 km. The 3.05-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:09:00 / 12:09 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SW of Pahala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4538333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9773333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SW 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 2019-01-23 10:09:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-23 21:43:47 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 reviewed 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 143 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1745 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 227 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 hv70780761 Id of event.
Event Code 70780761 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70780761,us2000j7pv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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