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Minor earthquake, 3.72 mag was detected near Naalehu in Hawaii

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Naalehu in Hawaii on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 11:25:18 / 11:25 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 11:25:18 / August 16, 2020 @ 11:25 am UTC/GMT. Event id: hv72091981. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv72091981. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.139999389648 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, depth 31.139999389648 km, -155.55166625977° West, 19.136167526245° North.

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Kalaoa, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

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

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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. 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: 8 km NNE of Naalehu, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.72 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.55166625977° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.136167526245° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.139999389648 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NNE of Naalehu, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-16 11:25:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-16 11:31:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	217	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	55	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	0.109999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	hv72091981	Id of event.
Event Code	72091981	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72091981,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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