Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.84 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/08/24 / 2024-08-21 13:51:01 / August 21, 2024 @ 1:51 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -155.24016666667 West, latitude 19.383 North, depth = 1.84 km. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:51:01 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: hv74417041. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74417041.

Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (23 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). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days eighty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.97 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.24016666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.383° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.84 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	2024-08-21 13:51:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-21 20:51:12	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	136	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.009392	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	hv74417041	Id of event.
Event Code	74417041	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74417041,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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