Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: hv71434502. Unique identifier: hv71434502. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 02:05:29 / March 18, 2020 @ 2:05 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.69 km (21 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.4973297 West, latitude 19.2248325 North, depth = 33.69 km. The temblor was detected at 16:05:29 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Hilo, Kailua. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km NW of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.4973297° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2248325° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NW 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	2020-03-18 02:05:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-18 02:08:34	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	138	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02347	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	hv71434502	Id of event.
Event Code	71434502	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71434502,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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