Minor earthquake, 3.52 mag strikes near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Event id: hv71521187. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv71521187. The temblor was picked up at 00:42:45 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.3964996 West, latitude 19.2258339 North, depth = 32.22 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.22 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 10:42:45 / May 21, 2020 @ 10:42 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hōlualoa.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km ENE of Pahala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.52 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.3964996° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2258339° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km 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	2020-05-21 10:42:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-21 10:54:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	14	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	195	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	0.01165	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	hv71521187	Id of event.
Event Code	71521187	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71521187,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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