Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.090000152588 km (18 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/25 / 2025-10-28 08:33:24 / October 28, 2025 @ 8:33 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:33:24 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv74818011. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74818011. Exact location of event, longitude -155.96833801269 West, latitude 19.654666900635 North, depth = 29.090000152588 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 3 km (2 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Did you feel it?

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: 3 km ENE of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.96833801269° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.654666900635° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.090000152588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km ENE of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-28 08:33:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-28 08:36:54	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	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	129	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09443	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.170000002 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	272	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	hv74818011	Id of event.
Event Code	74818011	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74818011,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Kailua-Kona in Hawaii

Did you feel it?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information