Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag has occurred near Naalehu in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Naalehu in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74619337. Unique identifier: hv74619337. The temblor was picked up at 19:49:50 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.4255065918° West, latitude 19.021999359131° North, depth = 32.119998931885 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.119998931885 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/25 / 2025-02-19 19:49:50 / February 19, 2025 @ 7:49 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (44 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-seven 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. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 17 km ESE of Naalehu, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.4255065918° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.021999359131° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.119998931885 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 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	2025-02-19 19:49:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-19 19:55:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	124	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	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1372	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.170000002 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	210	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	hv74619337	Id of event.
Event Code	74619337	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74619337,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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