Minor earthquake, 2.8599999 mag strikes near Waimea in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8599999 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Waimea in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74334437. Unique identifier: hv74334437. The temblor was picked up at 04:47:42 / 4:47 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/24 / 2024-07-15 04:47:42 / July 15, 2024 @ 4:47 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.860000610352 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.59266662598 West, latitude 20.034334182739 North, depth = 23.860000610352 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days eighty-eight 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km E of Waimea, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8599999 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.59266662598° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.034334182739° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.860000610352 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km E of Waimea, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-15 04:47:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-15 04:49:28	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	126	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09846	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.129999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	283	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv74334437	Id of event.
Event Code	74334437	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74334437,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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