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Minor earthquake 2.83999991 mag, 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.398500442505S, -155.27516174316WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83999991 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv74259686. Event ids that are associated: hv74259686. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.40999999642372 km (0 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.27516174316° West, latitude 19.398500442505° North, depth = 0.40999999642372 km. The temblor was detected at 04:36:48 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/24 / 2024-06-03 04:36:48 / June 3, 2024 @ 4:36 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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 SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83999991 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.27516174316° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.398500442505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.40999999642372 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 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 04:36:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-03 04:39:09 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 124 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.389999986 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 hv74259686 Id of event.
Event Code 74259686 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74259686, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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