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Minor earthquake, 3.21 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.392333333333S, -155.278WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/06/24 / 2024-06-03 05:38:02 / June 3, 2024 @ 5:38 am. Exact location of earthquake, -155.278° West, 19.392333333333° North, depth 1.74 km. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:38:02 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv74259876. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74259876. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.74 km (1 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 39 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).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.278° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.392333333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 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 05:38:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-03 05:50:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 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 159 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005102 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 hv74259876 Id of event.
Event Code 74259876 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74259876, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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