Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Naalehu in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Naalehu in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74609432. Id of event: hv74609432. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.11233520508 West, latitude 18.838167190552 North, depth = 16.860000610352 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.860000610352 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 21:46:33 / February 5, 2025 @ 9:46 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:46:33 / 9:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 55 km ESE of Naalehu, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.11233520508° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.838167190552° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.860000610352 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 km ESE of Naalehu, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-05 21:46:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-05 21:49:49	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	135	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4456	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.230000004 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	302	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	hv74609432	Id of event.
Event Code	74609432	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74609432,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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