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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.394332885742S, -155.26733398438WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv74304646. Event ids that are associated: hv74304646. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/06/24 / 2024-06-30 09:32:18 / June 30, 2024 @ 9:32 am. Exact location of earthquake, -155.26733398438° West, 19.394332885742° North, depth -1.039999961853 km. The epicenter was at a depth of -1.039999961853 km (-1 miles). The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:32:18 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.26733398438° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.394332885742° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.039999961853 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km SSW 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 2024-06-30 09:32:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-30 09:34:55 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 133 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.360000014 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 hv74304646 Id of event.
Event Code 74304646 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74304646, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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