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Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.385S, -155.2415WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 09:30:18 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2415 West, latitude 19.385 North, depth = 1.69 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/08/24 / 2024-08-06 09:30:18 / August 6, 2024 @ 9:30 am. Event id: hv74387426. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74387426. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.69 km (1 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 6 km S of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2415° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km S 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 2024-08-06 09:30:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-06 09:40:45 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 131 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009275 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 65 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 hv74387426 Id of event.
Event Code 74387426 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74387426, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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