Minor earthquake: M2.97000003 quake has struck near Fern Forest in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97000003 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Fern Forest in Hawaii on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -155.15817260742° West, 19.382999420166° North, depth 4.1599998474121 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74460517. Id of event: hv74460517. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.1599998474121 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 09:35:27 / 9:35 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 09:35:27 / September 15, 2024 @ 9:35 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 9 km SSW of Fern Forest, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.97000003 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.15817260742° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.382999420166° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.1599998474121 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSW of Fern Forest, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-15 09:35:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-15 09:37:07	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	136	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01108	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.349999994 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv74460517	Id of event.
Event Code	74460517	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74460517,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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