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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.387500762939S, -155.27983093262WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 12:16:45 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/12/24 / 2024-12-23 12:16:45 / December 23, 2024 @ 12:16 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.68000000715256 km (0 miles). Event id: hv74574932. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74574932. Exact location of event, longitude -155.27983093262 West, latitude 19.387500762939 North, depth = 0.68000000715256 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 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 one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.27983093262° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.387500762939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.68000000715256 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SW 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 2024-12-23 12:16:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-23 12:20:00 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 127 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002023 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.300000012 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 hv74574932 Id of event.
Event Code 74574932 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74574932, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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