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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag has occurred near Puako in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.099000930786S, -156.00349426269WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Puako in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 12:18:18 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/05/25 / 2025-05-21 12:18:18 / May 21, 2025 @ 12:18 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.800000190735 km (10 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74677512. Id of event: hv74677512. Exact location of event, depth 15.800000190735 km, -156.00349426269° West, 20.099000930786° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Kailua, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five 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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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. 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: 22 km NW of Puako, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.00349426269° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.099000930786° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.800000190735 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km NW of Puako, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-21 12:18:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-21 12:23:29 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 3.1 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 143 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.189999998 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 hv74677512 Id of event.
Event Code 74677512 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74677512, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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