Light earthquake, 4.15 mag strikes near Kalaoa in Hawaii

A light earthquake magnitude 4.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Kalaoa in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/10/25 / 2025-10-19 18:26:08 / October 19, 2025 @ 6:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.46 km (27 miles). Unique identifier: hv74809096. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ri6p, hv74809096. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.0925 West, latitude 19.844333333333 North, depth = 43.46 km. The temblor was detected at 18:26:08 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Hōlualoa. Event epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km NW of Kalaoa, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.0925° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.844333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km NW of Kalaoa, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-19 18:26:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-19 18:57:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	195	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.741	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	339	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2894	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	190	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	hv74809096	Id of event.
Event Code	74809096	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ri6p,hv74809096,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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