Minor earthquake 3.17 mag, 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.83999997377396 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.28466796875 West, latitude 19.398500442505 North, depth = 0.83999997377396 km. Event id: hv74684337. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74684337. The temblor was picked up at 11:39:38 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/05/25 / 2025-05-30 11:39:38 / May 30, 2025 @ 11:39 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.28466796875° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.398500442505° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.83999997377396 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-30 11:39:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-30 11:44:00	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	2.2	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	155	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.219999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26	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	hv74684337	Id of event.
Event Code	74684337	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74684337,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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