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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.8994999S, -155.2261658WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 06:12:19 / May 12, 2020 @ 6:12 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.49 km (8 miles). Unique identifier: hv71509452. Ids that are associated to the event: hv71509452. Exact location of event, depth 12.49 km, -155.2261658° West, 18.8994999° North. The temblor was detected at 20:12:19 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2261658° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8994999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SE 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 2020-05-12 06:12:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-12 06:15:37 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 124 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3386 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 252 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 hv71509452 Id of event.
Event Code 71509452 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71509452, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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