Minor earthquake 3.38000011 mag, 8 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.38000011 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv72301052. Id of event: hv72301052. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/12/20 / 2020-12-26 15:55:56 / December 26, 2020 @ 3:55 pm. Exact location, longitude -155.39633178711° West, latitude 19.225166320801° North, depth = 31.590000152588 km. The 3.38000011-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:55:56 / 3:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.590000152588 km (20 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38000011 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.39633178711° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.225166320801° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.590000152588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 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	2020-12-26 15:55:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-26 15:59:18	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	176	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	0.129999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	hv72301052	Id of event.
Event Code	72301052	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv72301052,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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