Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag was detected near Kalaoa in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Kalaoa in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/20 / 2020-08-20 05:43:39 / August 20, 2020 @ 5:43 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv72096811, us6000bhjm. Id of event: hv72096811. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.340000152588 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -156.08700561523° West, 19.899166107178° North, depth 41.340000152588 km. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:43:39 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Hōlualoa, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 21 km NNW of Kalaoa, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.08700561523° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.899166107178° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.340000152588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km NNW of Kalaoa, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-20 05:43:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-20 05:53:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	14	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	167	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	47	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	0.119999997 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	300	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	hv72096811	Id of event.
Event Code	72096811	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72096811,us6000bhjm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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