Minor earthquake, 2.91000009 mag strikes near Fern Forest in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91000009 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Fern Forest in Hawaii on Tuesday. The 2.91000009-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:49:03 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.16549682617° West, 19.38116645813° North, depth 2.7599999904633 km. Unique identifier: hv74467967. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74467967. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.7599999904633 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/24 / 2024-09-17 19:49:03 / September 17, 2024 @ 7:49 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 24 km (15 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.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91000009 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.16549682617° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.38116645813° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.7599999904633 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	2024-09-17 19:49:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-17 19:50:42	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	130	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.003974	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.330000013 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	hv74467967	Id of event.
Event Code	74467967	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74467967,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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