Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -155.23966666667° West, 19.387666666667° North, depth 1.17 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/24 / 2024-05-03 02:07:04 / May 3, 2024 @ 2:07 am. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74209377, us6000mvvt. Unique identifier: hv74209377. The temblor was detected at 02:07:04 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.17 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 has struck near.

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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: 6 km S of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.23966666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.387666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km S 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	2024-05-03 02:07:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-03 05:28:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	20	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	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	156	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0112	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	hv74209377	Id of event.
Event Code	74209377	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74209377,us6000mvvt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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