Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag has occurred near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/09/25 / 2025-09-13 20:53:45 / September 13, 2025 @ 8:53 pm. The 3.05-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:53:45 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -155.37916666667 West, latitude 19.248833333333 North, depth = 4.76 km. Unique identifier: hv74000179. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74000179. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.76 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.37916666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.248833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 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	2025-09-13 20:53:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-14 22:03:12	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	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	143	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02067	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	hv74000179	Id of event.
Event Code	74000179	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74000179,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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