Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.37516784668° West, 19.04700088501° North, depth 33.520000457764 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74625147. Unique identifier: hv74625147. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/02/25 / 2025-02-28 12:20:37 / February 28, 2025 @ 12:20 pm. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:20:37 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.520000457764 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 20 km SSE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.37516784668° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.04700088501° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.520000457764 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSE of Pāhala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-28 12:20:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-28 12:28:00	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	2.5	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	137	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1356	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.119999997 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208	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	hv74625147	Id of event.
Event Code	74625147	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74625147,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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