Minor earthquake: M2.87 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 01:49:43 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 01:49:43 / September 14, 2024 @ 1:49 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.809999465942 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -155.45733642578 West, latitude 19.104665756226 North, depth = 27.809999465942 km. Unique identifier: hv74458306. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74458306.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km SSE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.45733642578° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.104665756226° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.809999465942 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km SSE 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	2024-09-14 01:49:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-14 01:52:34	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	127	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05068	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.150000006 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	hv74458306	Id of event.
Event Code	74458306	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74458306,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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