Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 13:26:04 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/08/20 / 2020-08-12 13:26:04 / August 12, 2020 @ 1:26 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv72086321. Unique identifier: hv72086321. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.75 km (20 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.47650146484 West, latitude 19.17799949646 North, depth = 31.75 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km S of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.47650146484° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.17799949646° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km S of Pāhala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-12 13:26:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-12 13:31:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	125	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.129999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	hv72086321	Id of event.
Event Code	72086321	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72086321,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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