Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Naalehu in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Naalehu in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 6.3099999427795 km, -155.201171875° West, 18.891500473023° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.3099999427795 km (4 miles). Event id: hv74520052. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74520052. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/11/24 / 2024-11-02 08:56:49 / November 2, 2024 @ 8:56 am. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:56:49 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 44 km ESE of Naalehu, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.201171875° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.891500473023° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.3099999427795 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km ESE of Naalehu, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-02 08:56:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-02 08:59:43	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	121	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3604	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.119999997 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	299	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	hv74520052	Id of event.
Event Code	74520052	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74520052,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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