Minor earthquake 2.91 mag, 31 km SSW of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Pa‘auilo in Hawaii. Exact location of event, longitude -155.44532775879 West, latitude 19.763334274292 North, depth = 16.159999847412 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:01:42 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/24 / 2024-09-25 23:01:42 / September 25, 2024 @ 11:01 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.159999847412 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv74477372. Event ids that are associated: hv74477372.

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 nine, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km SSW of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.44532775879° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.763334274292° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.159999847412 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 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	2024-09-25 23:01:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-25 23:05:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	131	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01605	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.189999998 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	hv74477372	Id of event.
Event Code	74477372	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74477372,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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