Minor earthquake: M3.17 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/25 / 2025-03-14 04:29:09 / March 14, 2025 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -155.361328125° West, latitude 19.084833145142° North, depth = 33.54999923706 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74633517. Unique identifier: hv74633517. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.54999923706 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:29:09 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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 SE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.361328125° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.084833145142° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.54999923706 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km SE 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	2025-03-14 04:29:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-14 04:33:31	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	2.4	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	155	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	0.1184	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	200	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	hv74633517	Id of event.
Event Code	74633517	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74633517,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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