Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Kapaau in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Kapaau in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwya. Unique identifier: us6000pwya. Exact location, longitude -155.7996° West, latitude 20.1782° North, depth = 27.794 km. The temblor was reported at 01:00:13 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/03/25 / 2025-03-05 01:00:13 / March 5, 2025 @ 1:00 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.794 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Kailua, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 6 km S of Kapaau, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.7996° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.1782° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.794 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km S of Kapaau, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-05 01:00:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-05 01:12:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	10	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	reviewed	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	151	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us6000pwya	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pwya	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pwya,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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