Minor earthquake: M3.53 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. Event id: hv74580082. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74580082. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/24 / 2024-12-30 09:19:21 / December 30, 2024 @ 9:19 am. The temblor was detected at 09:19:21 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 29.790000915527 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, depth 29.790000915527 km, -155.49366760254° West, 19.17799949646° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 66 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). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Hilo, Kailua (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. 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. 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: 3 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.53 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.49366760254° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.17799949646° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.790000915527 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 09:19:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-30 09:23:09	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	66	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03734	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.129999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	hv74580082	Id of event.
Event Code	74580082	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74580082,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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