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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.930666S, -155.1929932WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Monday. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:31:56 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv71509222. Unique identifier: hv71509222. Exact location, longitude -155.1929932° West, latitude 18.930666° North, depth = 8.08 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 03:31:56 / May 12, 2020 @ 3:31 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.08 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 42 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1929932° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.930666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km 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 03:31:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-12 03:37:31 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 127 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3388 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 249 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 hv71509222 Id of event.
Event Code 71509222 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71509222, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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