Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74537972, us6000p75w. Id of event: hv74537972. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/24 / 2024-11-23 01:52:35 / November 23, 2024 @ 1:52 am. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:52:35 / 1:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.670000076294 km (18 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.49150085449 West, latitude 19.179832458496 North, depth = 29.670000076294 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.49150085449° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.179832458496° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.670000076294 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-23 01:52:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-23 01:57:36	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	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	138	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0369	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.129999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	hv74537972	Id of event.
Event Code	74537972	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74537972,us6000p75w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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