Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Leilani Estates in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/25 / 2025-01-04 13:14:30 / January 4, 2025 @ 1:14 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.82 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 6.82 km, -154.97283333333° West, 19.373666666667° North. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:14:30 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv74583677. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74583677, us6000phup.

Event epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 12 km SSW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-154.97283333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.373666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SSW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-04 13:14:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-05 04:49:52	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	4.1	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	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01929	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	205	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	hv74583677	Id of event.
Event Code	74583677	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74583677,us6000phup,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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