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Minor earthquake: M3.77 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.350666046143S, -155.42050170898WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.77 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Thursday. Event id: hv72379532. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt21070050, hv72379532. The temblor was reported at 00:21:50 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/03/21 / 2021-03-11 00:21:50 / March 11, 2021 @ 12:21 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.709999084473 km (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.42050170898 West, latitude 19.350666046143 North, depth = 25.709999084473 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-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. 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: 17 km NNE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.77 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.42050170898° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.350666046143° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.709999084473 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km NNE 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 2021-03-11 00:21:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-11 00:28:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 42 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.591 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 240 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 ,pt,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 41 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 0.189999998 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 hv72379532 Id of event.
Event Code 72379532 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt21070050,hv72379532, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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