Minor earthquake: M3.12 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv72231777. Id of event: hv72231777. The temblor was picked up at 13:31:50 / 1:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.759998321533 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 13:31:50 / November 16, 2020 @ 1:31 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -155.38999938965° West, latitude 19.234832763672° North, depth = 32.759998321533 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.38999938965° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.234832763672° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.759998321533 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km ENE 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	2020-11-16 13:31:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-16 13:37:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.992	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	150	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	52	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	148	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	hv72231777	Id of event.
Event Code	72231777	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72231777,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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