Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 05:07:04 / May 12, 2020 @ 5:07 am. Exact location of earthquake, -155.4648285° West, 19.1935005° North, depth 33.27 km. The temblor was detected at 19:07:04 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.27 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: hv71509352. Ids that are associated to the event: hv71509352.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hilo, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).

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 thirty, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 2 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.4648285° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1935005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km 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 05:07:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-12 05:12:44	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	128	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03797	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	103	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	hv71509352	Id of event.
Event Code	71509352	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71509352,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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