Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Kalaoa in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Kalaoa in Hawaii on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q4hr. Id of event: us6000q4hr. The temblor was detected at 08:52:25 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -156.1081° West, 19.7399° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/04/25 / 2025-04-07 08:52:25 / April 7, 2025 @ 8:52 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa. Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km W of Kalaoa, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.1081° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7399° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km W of Kalaoa, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-07 08:52:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-07 09:31:48	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	2.7	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	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	130	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.262	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	us6000q4hr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q4hr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q4hr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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