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Minor earthquake: M2.9000001 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.04400062561S, -155.35932922363WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9000001 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74635767. Unique identifier: hv74635767. The 2.9000001-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:40:16 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/03/25 / 2025-03-17 17:40:16 / March 17, 2025 @ 5:40 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.460000038147 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.35932922363 West, latitude 19.04400062561 North, depth = 15.460000038147 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 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 six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km SE of Pāhala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9000001 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.35932922363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.04400062561° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.460000038147 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 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 2025-03-17 17:40:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-17 17:49:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 132 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 0.1474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.270000011 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 hv74635767 Id of event.
Event Code 74635767 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74635767, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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