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Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.387500762939S, -155.27667236328WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.3500000238419 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/06/24 / 2024-06-03 04:17:49 / June 3, 2024 @ 4:17 am. Exact location of event, depth 1.3500000238419 km, -155.27667236328° West, 19.387500762939° North. Unique identifier: hv74259611. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74259611. The temblor was reported at 04:17:49 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.27667236328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.387500762939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.3500000238419 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 04:17:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-03 04:22:27 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 137 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004857 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 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 hv74259611 Id of event.
Event Code 74259611 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74259611, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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