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Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.396499633789S, -155.28199768066WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:11:16 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/24 / 2024-06-03 03:11:16 / June 3, 2024 @ 3:11 am. Exact location of event, depth 0.62000000476837 km, -155.28199768066° West, 19.396499633789° North. Id of earthquake: hv74259376. Event ids that are associated: hv74259376. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.62000000476837 km (0 miles).

Nearby 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. The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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: 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.28199768066° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.396499633789° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.62000000476837 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 03:11:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-03 03:13:55 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 125 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 0.007966 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.340000004 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 hv74259376 Id of event.
Event Code 74259376 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74259376, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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