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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Pāhala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.226499557495S, -155.37882995606WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 15:50:07 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.37882995606° West, latitude 19.226499557495° North, depth = 33.869998931885 km. Global time and date of event 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 15:50:07 / January 15, 2021 @ 3:50 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv72321032. Ids that are associated to the event: hv72321032. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.869998931885 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 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), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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 thirty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.37882995606° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.226499557495° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.869998931885 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 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 2021-01-15 15:50:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-15 15:55:41 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 138 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 0.129999995 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 hv72321032 Id of event.
Event Code 72321032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv72321032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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