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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 0 km NW of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.444499969482S, -155.23616027832WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -155.23616027832° West, latitude 19.444499969482° North, depth = 27.120000839233 km. Global time and date of event 14/11/24 / 2024-11-14 16:09:09 / November 14, 2024 @ 4:09 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74530357. Id of event: hv74530357. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:09:09 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.120000839233 km (17 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Hōlualoa, Hilo. Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 0 km NW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.23616027832° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.444499969482° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.120000839233 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0 km NW 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 2024-11-14 16:09:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-14 16:12:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 148 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02932 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.159999996 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 hv74530357 Id of event.
Event Code 74530357 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74530357, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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