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Minor earthquake 2.9000001 mag, 17 km SE of Fern Forest, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.341499328613S, -155.02816772461WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9000001 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Fern Forest in Hawaii. Exact location, longitude -155.02816772461° West, latitude 19.341499328613° North, depth = 3.6300001144409 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.6300001144409 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 13:01:28 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv74775017. Unique identifier: hv74775017. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/25 / 2025-09-13 13:01:28 / September 13, 2025 @ 1:01 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 17 km SE of Fern Forest, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9000001 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.02816772461° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.341499328613° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.6300001144409 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km SE of Fern Forest, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-13 13:01:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-13 13:05:59 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 3.4 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 130 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.280000001 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv74775017 Id of event.
Event Code 74775017 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74775017, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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