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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.370500564575S, -155.2106628418WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.0899999141693 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: hv74443536. Unique identifier: hv74443536. The temblor was reported at 23:44:50 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.2106628418° West, latitude 19.370500564575° North, depth = 2.0899999141693 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/09/24 / 2024-09-05 23:44:50 / September 5, 2024 @ 11:44 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 8 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2106628418° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.370500564575° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.0899999141693 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km SSE 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 2024-09-05 23:44:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-05 23:47:50 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 126 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005615 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.270000011 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 hv74443536 Id of event.
Event Code 74443536 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74443536, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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