Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.652833938599S, -156.12550354004WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv74622247. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74622247. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/02/25 / 2025-02-24 07:31:20 / February 24, 2025 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.1399998664856 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 7.1399998664856 km, -156.12550354004° West, 19.652833938599° North. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:31:20 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

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

Did you feel anything?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.12550354004° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.652833938599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.1399998664856 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-24 07:31:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-24 07:40:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 140 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2749 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 hv74622247 Id of event.
Event Code 74622247 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74622247, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply