Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag has occurred near Honoka‘a in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Honoka‘a in Hawaii. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:13:29 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74588842. Id of event: hv74588842. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/01/25 / 2025-01-10 22:13:29 / January 10, 2025 @ 10:13 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.63 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7.63 km, -155.42183333333° West, 20.2505° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Waikoloa Village, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 19 km NNE of Honoka‘a, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.42183333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.2505° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km NNE of Honoka‘a, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-10 22:13:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-11 00:17:10	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	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	151	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3084	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	243	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	hv74588842	Id of event.
Event Code	74588842	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74588842,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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