Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74447101. Id of event: hv74447101. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:06:43 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.99000000953674 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/24 / 2024-09-07 17:06:43 / September 7, 2024 @ 5:06 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.27749633789 West, latitude 19.386499404907 North, depth = 0.99000000953674 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.27749633789° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.386499404907° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.99000000953674 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km SW 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	2024-09-07 17:06:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-07 17:09:51	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	129	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.003983	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.230000004 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	hv74447101	Id of event.
Event Code	74447101	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74447101,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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