Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Kahaluu-Keauhou in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kahaluu-Keauhou in Hawaii on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -156.03317260742° West, 19.535333633423° North, depth 44.349998474121 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:37:21 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv74292931. Unique identifier: hv74292931. The epicenter was at a depth of 44.349998474121 km (28 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/24 / 2024-06-26 02:37:21 / June 26, 2024 @ 2:37 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 12 km (8 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km WSW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.03317260742° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.535333633423° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.349998474121 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km WSW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-26 02:37:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-26 02:39:59	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	127	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1178	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.170000002 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	217	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	hv74292931	Id of event.
Event Code	74292931	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74292931,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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