Minor earthquake, 2.8499999 mag has occurred near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8499999 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 19:57:08 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv72299902. Unique identifier: hv72299902. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.540000915527 km (20 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.47782897949° West, latitude 19.173166275024° North, depth = 32.540000915527 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/20 / 2020-12-25 19:57:08 / December 25, 2020 @ 7:57 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 3 km S of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8499999 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.47782897949° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.173166275024° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.540000915527 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 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	2020-12-25 19:57:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-25 20:00:29	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	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	0.109999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv72299902	Id of event.
Event Code	72299902	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72299902,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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