Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74727147. Unique identifier: hv74727147. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:09:58 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 16:09:58 / July 16, 2025 @ 4:09 pm. Exact location of event, depth 13.630000114441 km, -155.35833740234° West, 19.22483253479° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.630000114441 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three 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: 12 km E of Pāhala, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.84 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.35833740234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.22483253479° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.630000114441 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km E 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 16:09:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-16 16:13:03	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	124	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08577	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	173	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	hv74727147	Id of event.
Event Code	74727147	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74727147,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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