Minor earthquake, 2.81999993 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81999993 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of event, depth 4.6199998855591 km, -155.25° West, 19.317667007446° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 09:11:57 / September 16, 2024 @ 9:11 am. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74463992. Unique identifier: hv74463992. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.6199998855591 km (3 miles). The 2.81999993-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:11:57 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 13 km S of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81999993 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.25° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.317667007446° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.6199998855591 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km S 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	2024-09-16 09:11:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-16 09:16:06	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	122	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05631	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.219999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	293	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	hv74463992	Id of event.
Event Code	74463992	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74463992,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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