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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.166666S, -155.4869995WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71389617. Id of event: hv71389617. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.37 km (17 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.4869995 West, latitude 19.166666 North, depth = 27.37 km. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:09:35 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/20 / 2020-02-19 04:09:35 / February 19, 2020 @ 4:09 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km S of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4869995° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.166666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km S 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 2020-02-19 04:09:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-19 04:15:09 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 122 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02605 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 hv71389617 Id of event.
Event Code 71389617 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71389617, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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