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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Puako in Hawaii

Posted by admin on November 22, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.0497S, -156.0577WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Puako in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/11/25 / 2025-11-22 17:16:40 / November 22, 2025 @ 5:16 pm. The temblor was picked up at 17:16:40 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.752 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000rpv7. Event ids that are associated: us6000rpv7. Exact location, longitude -156.0577° West, latitude 20.0497° North, depth = 36.752 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Kailua, Waimea. Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 24 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.0577° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.0497° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.752 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-22 17:16:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-22 19:17:59 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us6000rpv7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rpv7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rpv7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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