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Minor earthquake: M3.14 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.8896675S, -155.2709961WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/19 / 2019-03-17 15:34:56 / March 17, 2019 @ 3:34 pm. Exact location of event, depth 13.96 km, -155.2709961° West, 18.8896675° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.96 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:34:56 / 5:34 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70869642. Unique identifier: hv70869642.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 41 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2709961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8896675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km 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 2019-03-17 15:34:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-17 15:46:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 152 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3203 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 250 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 hv70869642 Id of event.
Event Code 70869642 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70869642, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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