Minor earthquake, 3.87 mag was detected near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.739999771118 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/11/24 / 2024-11-14 22:42:34 / November 14, 2024 @ 10:42 pm. The temblor was reported at 22:42:34 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.36500549316° West, latitude 19.056667327881° North, depth = 31.739999771118 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74530707. Unique identifier: hv74530707.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 20 km SE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.36500549316° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.056667327881° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.739999771118 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SE 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	2024-11-14 22:42:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-14 22:46:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	231	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1345	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.159999996 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	207	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	hv74530707	Id of event.
Event Code	74530707	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74530707,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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