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Minor earthquake, 2.80999994 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.388166427612S, -155.23733520508WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.80999994 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location, longitude -155.23733520508° West, latitude 19.388166427612° North, depth = 0.93999999761581 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.93999999761581 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: hv74402371. Unique identifier: hv74402371. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 13:34:03 / August 15, 2024 @ 1:34 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:34:03 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km S of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.80999994 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.23733520508° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.388166427612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.93999999761581 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 2024-08-15 13:34:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-15 13:35:57 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 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.389999986 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 hv74402371 Id of event.
Event Code 74402371 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74402371, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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