Minor earthquake: M3.26 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 10:21:29 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 30.74 km (19 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/24 / 2024-10-20 10:21:29 / October 20, 2024 @ 10:21 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv74504631. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nzvf, hv74504631. Exact location of event, depth 30.74 km, -155.49383333333° West, 19.185666666667° North.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Hilo, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 2 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.26 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.49383333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.185666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 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	2024-10-20 10:21:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-20 15:31:39	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	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.561	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	reviewed	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	164	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	,us,hv,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04248	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	hv74504631	Id of event.
Event Code	74504631	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nzvf,hv74504631,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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