Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 2 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/24 / 2024-12-19 19:36:45 / December 19, 2024 @ 7:36 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:36:45 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74570992. Id of event: hv74570992. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.680000305176 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.49183654785° West, latitude 19.180166244507° North, depth = 32.680000305176 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Kailua, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 2 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.49183654785° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.180166244507° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.680000305176 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	2024-12-19 19:36:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-19 19:39:36	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	126	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03736	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.150000006 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	hv74570992	Id of event.
Event Code	74570992	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74570992,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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