Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag was detected near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Monday. The temblor was detected at 09:19:07 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 30.389999389648 km (19 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/24 / 2024-12-30 09:19:07 / December 30, 2024 @ 9:19 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74580077. Id of event: hv74580077. Exact location of earthquake, -155.49266052246° West, 19.178499221802° North, depth 30.389999389648 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Hilo, Kailua. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.53 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.49266052246° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.178499221802° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.389999389648 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km SSW 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	2024-12-30 09:19:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-30 09:22:31	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	192	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03689	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.200000003 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	hv74580077	Id of event.
Event Code	74580077	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74580077,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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