Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/08/24 / 2024-08-22 05:17:50 / August 22, 2024 @ 5:17 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.2300000190735 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv74418856. Event ids that are associated: hv74418856. Exact location of event, depth 1.2300000190735 km, -155.24884033203° West, 19.393167495727° North. The temblor was reported at 05:17:50 / 5:17 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 5 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.24884033203° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.393167495727° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.2300000190735 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 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	2024-08-22 05:17:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-22 05:23:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	123	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.007966	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.219999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	hv74418856	Id of event.
Event Code	74418856	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74418856,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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