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Minor earthquake 3.71 mag, 5 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.159000396729S, -155.51167297363WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Thursday. Id of earthquake: hv74232822. Event ids that are associated: hv74232822. The temblor was reported at 13:25:42 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.51167297363° West, 19.159000396729° North, depth 32.189998626709 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/24 / 2024-05-16 13:25:42 / May 16, 2024 @ 1:25 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.189998626709 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 nine, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.71 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.51167297363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.159000396729° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.189998626709 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SW 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 2024-05-16 13:25:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-16 13:29:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 213 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.150000006 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 hv74232822 Id of event.
Event Code 74232822 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74232822, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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