Minor earthquake 2.83 mag, 27 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74641437. Unique identifier: hv74641437. The temblor was picked up at 00:36:21 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/25 / 2025-03-26 00:36:21 / March 26, 2025 @ 12:36 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.0500001907349 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -156.24867248535° West, 19.575834274292° North, depth 6.0500001907349 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 27 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.24867248535° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.575834274292° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.0500001907349 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-26 00:36:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-26 00:40:19	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	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	123	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2517	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.219999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262	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	hv74641437	Id of event.
Event Code	74641437	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74641437,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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