Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Pepeekeo in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pepeekeo in Hawaii on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 13:16:05 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.280000686646 km (19 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -155.1053314209° West, 19.815166473389° North, depth 31.280000686646 km. Event id: hv74649742. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74649742. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/04/25 / 2025-04-08 13:16:05 / April 8, 2025 @ 1:16 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Waimea, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.1053314209° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.815166473389° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.280000686646 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km S of Pepeekeo, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-08 13:16:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-08 13:19:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	129	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	0.1387	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.180000007 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	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	hv74649742	Id of event.
Event Code	74649742	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74649742,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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