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Minor earthquake 3.39 mag, 8 km ENE of Pahala, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2329998S, -155.4069977WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Exact location, longitude -155.4069977° West, latitude 19.2329998° North, depth = 32.54 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/20 / 2020-05-10 22:20:41 / May 10, 2020 @ 10:20 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:20:41 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: hv71507312. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71507312. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.54 km (20 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 8 km ENE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.39 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.4069977° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2329998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE 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 2020-05-10 22:20:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-10 22:26:16 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 177 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 hv71507312 Id of event.
Event Code 71507312 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71507312, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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