Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.371 km (1 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:13:39 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2211 West, latitude 19.3646 North, depth = 2.371 km. Id of earthquake: us7000n88k. Event ids that are associated: us7000n88k. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 14:13:39 / August 20, 2024 @ 2:13 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km S of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2211° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3646° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.371 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 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	2024-08-20 14:13:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-20 16:40:21	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	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.011	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us7000n88k	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n88k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n88k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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