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Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Laupāhoehoe in Hawaii

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Laupāhoehoe in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv74664712. Event ids that are associated: hv74664712. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.479999542236 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:59:40 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.29583740234° West, 19.971500396729° North, depth 30.479999542236 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/25 / 2025-05-02 22:59:40 / May 2, 2025 @ 10:59 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Kalaoa, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 6 km WSW of Laupāhoehoe, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.29583740234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.971500396729° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.479999542236 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km WSW of Laupāhoehoe, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-02 22:59:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-02 23:04:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	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	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	165	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	0.05551	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	116	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	hv74664712	Id of event.
Event Code	74664712	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74664712,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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