Minor earthquake: M2.97000003 quake has struck near Pa‘auilo in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.97000003 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Pa‘auilo in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 13:44:20 / September 20, 2024 @ 1:44 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.35000038147 km (15 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:44:20 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.45767211914° West, latitude 19.806167602539° North, depth = 24.35000038147 km. Unique identifier: hv74471062. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74471062.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 56 km (34 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 27 km SSW of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.97000003 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.45767211914° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.806167602539° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.35000038147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km SSW of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-20 13:44:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-20 13:45:52	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	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03017	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.170000002 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	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	hv74471062	Id of event.
Event Code	74471062	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74471062,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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