Minor earthquake, 3.47000003 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.47000003 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 12:46:13 / August 20, 2024 @ 12:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 12:46:13 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.43000000715256 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: hv74413141. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74413141. Exact location of event, depth 0.43000000715256 km, -155.23933410644° West, 19.386833190918° North.

Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 79 km (49 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.47000003 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.23933410644° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.386833190918° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.43000000715256 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	2024-08-20 12:46:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-20 12:49:03	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	185	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01138	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.310000002 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	hv74413141	Id of event.
Event Code	74413141	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74413141,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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