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Minor earthquake, 2.8599999 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.382999420166S, -155.25733947754WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8599999 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Event id: hv74411631. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74411631. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 01:22:41 / August 20, 2024 @ 1:22 am. Exact location of earthquake, -155.25733947754° West, 19.382999420166° North, depth 0.18000000715256 km. The 2.8599999-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:22:41 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.18000000715256 km (0 miles).

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. The epicenter 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 two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 7 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8599999 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.25733947754° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.382999420166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.18000000715256 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 2024-08-20 01:22:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-20 01:24:36 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 126 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006216 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.200000003 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 hv74411631 Id of event.
Event Code 74411631 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74411631, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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