Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.41 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:32:50 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter). Event id: hv74206717. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74206717. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.24733333333 West, latitude 19.387666666667 North, depth = 1.41 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 10:32:50 / May 2, 2024 @ 10:32 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 6 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.24733333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.387666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SSW 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	2024-05-02 10:32:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-02 18:34:09	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	2.4	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	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	127	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.004324	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 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	hv74206717	Id of event.
Event Code	74206717	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74206717,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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