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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 9 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.374500274658S, -155.17832946777WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:39:00 / 10:39 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: hv74464187. Event ids that are associated: hv74464187. Global time and date of event 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 10:39:00 / September 16, 2024 @ 10:39 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.9099999666214 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.9099999666214 km, -155.17832946777° West, 19.374500274658° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, 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 struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 9 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.17832946777° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.374500274658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.9099999666214 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SE 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 10:39:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-16 10:41:52 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 128 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009845 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.389999986 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 hv74464187 Id of event.
Event Code 74464187 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74464187, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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