Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 14:24:16 / December 9, 2015 @ 2:24 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.22 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.1878357° West, latitude 19.3118324° North, depth = 8.22 km. Event id: hv61123481. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61123481. The temblor was reported at 04:24:16 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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: 14 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.1878357° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3118324° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-09 14:24:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-09 14:28:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	123	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04621	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 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	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv61123481	Id of event.
Event Code	61123481	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61123481,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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