Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Saturday. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:17:27 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74589222. Id of event: hv74589222. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.340000152588 km (19 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/25 / 2025-01-11 10:17:27 / January 11, 2025 @ 10:17 am. Exact location, longitude -155.37916564941° West, latitude 19.202333450317° North, depth = 30.340000152588 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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. 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: 10 km E of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.37916564941° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.202333450317° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.340000152588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km E 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	2025-01-11 10:17:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-11 10:24:34	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	122	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	63	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03904	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.140000001 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	hv74589222	Id of event.
Event Code	74589222	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74589222,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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