Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Thursday. Unique identifier: hv74430267. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74430267. Exact location of event, longitude -155.49049377441 West, latitude 19.174499511719 North, depth = 32.169998168945 km. The temblor was detected at 17:47:24 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/08/24 / 2024-08-29 17:47:24 / August 29, 2024 @ 5:47 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.169998168945 km (20 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 3 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.49049377441° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.174499511719° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.169998168945 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-29 17:47:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-29 17:50:18	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	138	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03287	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.180000007 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	hv74430267	Id of event.
Event Code	74430267	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74430267,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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