Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 13:02:26 / July 16, 2025 @ 1:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 13:02:26 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv74726997. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74726997. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.38133239746 West, latitude 19.263000488281 North, depth = 2.5099999904633 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.5099999904633 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.38133239746° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.263000488281° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.5099999904633 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-16 13:02:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-16 13:05:52	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	125	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02961	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	129	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	hv74726997	Id of event.
Event Code	74726997	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74726997,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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