Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag was detected near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 02:29:58 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv74789822, us6000re4h. Unique identifier: hv74789822. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/10/25 / 2025-10-02 02:29:58 / October 2, 2025 @ 2:29 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.489999771118 km (17 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.32783508301° West, latitude 19.253000259399° North, depth = 27.489999771118 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (36 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.32783508301° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.253000259399° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.489999771118 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 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	2025-10-02 02:29:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-02 02:37:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	183	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,us,	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	0.04713	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.129999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	hv74789822	Id of event.
Event Code	74789822	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74789822,us6000re4h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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