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Minor earthquake, 3.73 mag was detected near Pāhala in Hawaii

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.73 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Friday. The 3.73-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:12:40 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/20 / 2020-12-25 05:12:40 / December 25, 2020 @ 5:12 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.469999313354 km (20 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv72298972. Id of event: hv72298972. Exact location, longitude -155.45599365234° West, latitude 19.174999237061° North, depth = 31.469999313354 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.73 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.45599365234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.174999237061° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.469999313354 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km SE 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 05:12:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-25 05:18:57	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		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	214	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	27	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	0.159999996 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	hv72298972	Id of event.
Event Code	72298972	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72298972,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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