Minor earthquake: M3.39 quake has struck near Hawaii in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) strikes Island of Hawaii, Hawaii kilometers (0 miles) from Hawaii in Hawaii on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -1.5800000429153 km (-1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 18:56:28 / August 16, 2020 @ 6:56 pm. Exact location, longitude -155.29800415039° West, latitude 19.993667602539° North, depth = -1.5800000429153 km. The 3.39-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:56:28 / 6:56 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv72092451. Ids that are associated to the event: hv72092451.

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Kalaoa, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: Island of Hawaii, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.39 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.29800415039° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.993667602539° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.5800000429153 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Island of Hawaii, 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 18:56:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-16 19:02:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	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	180	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.300000012 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187	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	hv72092451	Id of event.
Event Code	72092451	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72092451,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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