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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.1464996S, -155.420166WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70883551. Unique identifier: hv70883551. Exact location, longitude -155.420166° West, latitude 19.1464996° North, depth = 35 km. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:59:45 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 07:59:45 / March 30, 2019 @ 7:59 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.420166° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1464996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2019-03-30 07:59:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 08:02:59 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 131 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 hv70883551 Id of event.
Event Code 70883551 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70883551, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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