Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:56:03 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.43999999761581 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/24 / 2024-06-03 06:56:03 / June 3, 2024 @ 6:56 am. Exact location, longitude -155.27333068848° West, latitude 19.392999649048° North, depth = 0.43999999761581 km. Unique identifier: hv74260076. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74260076.

Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 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 (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.27333068848° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.392999649048° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.43999999761581 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 06:56:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-03 06:58:43	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	121	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.002374	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.219999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	hv74260076	Id of event.
Event Code	74260076	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74260076,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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