Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Wednesday. Unique identifier: hv74389701. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74389701. Exact location of event, longitude -155.45616149902 West, latitude 19.123167037964 North, depth = 9.8699998855591 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.8699998855591 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 15:46:36 / August 7, 2024 @ 3:46 pm. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:46:36 / 3:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.45616149902° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.123167037964° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.8699998855591 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSE 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	2024-08-07 15:46:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 15:49:13	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	123	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2195	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.189999998 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262	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	hv74389701	Id of event.
Event Code	74389701	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74389701,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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