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Minor earthquake 2.91000009 mag, 9 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.374500274658S, -155.18367004394WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91000009 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.91000009-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:44:34 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 2.6199998855591 km, -155.18367004394° West, 19.374500274658° North. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74362171. Unique identifier: hv74362171. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.6199998855591 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/24 / 2024-07-25 07:44:34 / July 25, 2024 @ 7:44 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. 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: 9 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91000009 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.18367004394° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.374500274658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.6199998855591 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SE 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 2024-07-25 07:44:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-25 07:46:21 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 130 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03006 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 121 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 hv74362171 Id of event.
Event Code 74362171 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74362171, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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