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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.340333938599S, -155.19500732422WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 00:56:42 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.1100001335144 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/25 / 2025-06-14 00:56:42 / June 14, 2025 @ 12:56 am. Exact location of event, longitude -155.19500732422 West, latitude 19.340333938599 North, depth = 4.1100001335144 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74697462. Id of event: hv74697462.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 12 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.19500732422° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.340333938599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.1100001335144 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km SSE 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 2025-06-14 00:56:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-14 01:00:17 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 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 138 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 0.03849 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.239999995 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 hv74697462 Id of event.
Event Code 74697462 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74697462, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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