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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1261673S, -155.427002WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/05/19 / 2019-05-23 06:03:58 / May 23, 2019 @ 6:03 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:03:58 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.427002 West, latitude 19.1261673 North, depth = 47.72 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.72 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv70965146. Event ids that are associated: hv70965146.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days four thousand, four hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.427002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1261673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2019-05-23 06:03:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-23 06:07:16 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 134 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04414 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 187 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 hv70965146 Id of event.
Event Code 70965146 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70965146, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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