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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 8 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.381666183472S, -155.28483581543WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.28483581543° West, 19.381666183472° North, depth 0.40000000596046 km. The temblor was detected at 03:13:36 / 3:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.40000000596046 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/06/24 / 2024-06-03 03:13:36 / June 3, 2024 @ 3:13 am UTC/GMT. Event id: hv74259381. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74259381.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.28483581543° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.381666183472° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.40000000596046 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km SW 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 2024-06-03 03:13:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-03 03:17:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 122 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.189999998 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 hv74259381 Id of event.
Event Code 74259381 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74259381, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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