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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9256668S, -155.1748352WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71509212. Id of event: hv71509212. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.1748352 West, latitude 18.9256668 North, depth = 7.18 km. Global time and date of event 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 03:24:31 / May 12, 2020 @ 3:24 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.18 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:24:31 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter 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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1748352° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9256668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km 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 03:24:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-12 03:27:54 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 129 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3551 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 260 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 hv71509212 Id of event.
Event Code 71509212 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv71509212, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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