Minor earthquake: M2.95000005 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95000005 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 16:37:03 / August 15, 2024 @ 4:37 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:37:03 / 4:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.5599999427795 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.25782775879 West, latitude 19.382165908814 North, depth = 1.5599999427795 km. Id of earthquake: hv74402766. Event ids that are associated: hv74402766.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 7 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95000005 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.25782775879° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.382165908814° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.5599999427795 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	2024-08-15 16:37:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-15 16:39:15	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	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	134	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	0.006995	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.379999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	hv74402766	Id of event.
Event Code	74402766	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74402766,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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