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Minor earthquake, 2.94000006 mag was detected near Fern Forest in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.359666824341S, -155.08532714844WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94000006 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Fern Forest in Hawaii. The 2.94000006-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:19:25 / 5:19 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/03/25 / 2025-03-02 05:19:25 / March 2, 2025 @ 5:19 am UTC/GMT. Event id: hv74626252. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74626252. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.7699999809265 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.08532714844 West, latitude 19.359666824341 North, depth = 5.7699999809265 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 12 km SSE of Fern Forest, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94000006 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.08532714844° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.359666824341° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.7699999809265 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km SSE of Fern Forest, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-02 05:19:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-02 05:23:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 134 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.239999995 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv74626252 Id of event.
Event Code 74626252 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74626252, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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