Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Thursday. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:14:32 / 12:14 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv74362861. Unique identifier: hv74362861. Exact location of event, longitude -155.499 West, latitude 19.157166666667 North, depth = 32.31 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.31 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/24 / 2024-07-25 12:14:32 / July 25, 2024 @ 12:14 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 5 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.499° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.157166666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SSW of Pāhala, 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 12:14:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-25 23:50:15	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	reviewed	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	121	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03491	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	hv74362861	Id of event.
Event Code	74362861	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74362861,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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