Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv74385336. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ni4d, hv74385336. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:59:22 / 2:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.2525° West, 19.379333333333° North, depth 0.21 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.21 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/24 / 2024-08-05 02:59:22 / August 5, 2024 @ 2:59 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2525° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.379333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 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	2024-08-05 02:59:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-05 18:51:33	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	125	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	,us,hv,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.006246	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	hv74385336	Id of event.
Event Code	74385336	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ni4d,hv74385336,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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