Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.63999998569489 km (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:04:05 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 17:04:05 / July 26, 2024 @ 5:04 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.25183105469 West, latitude 19.404333114624 North, depth = 0.63999998569489 km. Id of earthquake: hv74367226. Event ids that are associated: hv74367226.

The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 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).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 4 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.25183105469° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.404333114624° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.63999998569489 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 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	2024-07-26 17:04:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-26 17:06:41	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01082	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.239999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	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	hv74367226	Id of event.
Event Code	74367226	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74367226,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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