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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag was detected near Pāhala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.183166503906S, -155.48466491699WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Monday. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:32:42 / 1:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/09/24 / 2024-09-02 13:32:42 / September 2, 2024 @ 1:32 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74437362. Unique identifier: hv74437362. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.389999389648 km (18 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.48466491699° West, latitude 19.183166503906° North, depth = 28.389999389648 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 2 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.48466491699° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.183166503906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.389999389648 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 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 2024-09-02 13:32:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-02 13:35:35 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 130 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.159999996 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 hv74437362 Id of event.
Event Code 74437362 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74437362, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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