Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -1.68 km (-1 miles). Id of earthquake: hv71285981. Event ids that are associated: hv71285981. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/19 / 2019-12-20 14:48:39 / December 20, 2019 @ 2:48 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -155.6094971 West, latitude 19.4141674 North, depth = -1.68 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:48:39 / 4:48 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km NNW of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.6094971° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4141674° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NNW 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	2019-12-20 14:48:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-20 14:54:19	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	180	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02052	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	hv71285981	Id of event.
Event Code	71285981	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71285981,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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