Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.28166198731 West, latitude 19.400999069214 North, depth = 0.61000001430511 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/24 / 2024-12-23 12:13:46 / December 23, 2024 @ 12:13 pm. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:13:46 / 12:13 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv74574917. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74574917. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.61000001430511 km (0 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

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 three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.28166198731° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.400999069214° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.61000001430511 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 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 12:13:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-23 12:16:58	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	128	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.009417	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.360000014 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	hv74574917	Id of event.
Event Code	74574917	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74574917,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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