Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Wai‘ōhinu in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Wai‘ōhinu in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.61616666667 West, latitude 19.196166666667 North, depth = -0.15 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/08/25 / 2025-08-16 15:10:39 / August 16, 2025 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.15 km (-0 miles). Unique identifier: hv74753897. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r1lk, hv74753897. The temblor was detected at 15:10:39 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kalaoa, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 13 km N of Wai‘ōhinu, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.61616666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.196166666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km N of Wai‘ōhinu, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-16 15:10:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-19 20:36:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	reviewed	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	134	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	,us,hv,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	hv74753897	Id of event.
Event Code	74753897	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r1lk,hv74753897,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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