Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Honoka‘a in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Honoka‘a in Hawaii on Monday. Global time and date of event 09/09/24 / 2024-09-09 11:48:25 / September 9, 2024 @ 11:48 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74448367. Id of event: hv74448367. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.090000152588 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 11:48:25 / 11:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.47366333008 West, latitude 20.085332870483 North, depth = 36.090000152588 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.47366333008° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.085332870483° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.090000152588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0 km NW of Honoka‘a, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-09 11:48:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-09 11:51:19	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	125	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2172	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.0799999982 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	245	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	hv74448367	Id of event.
Event Code	74448367	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74448367,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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