Minor earthquake: M3.55 quake has struck near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rt4h, hv74846967. Unique identifier: hv74846967. Exact location of event, longitude -155.37316894531 West, latitude 19.142499923706 North, depth = 29.469999313354 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.469999313354 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 11:00:37 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 11:00:37 / December 7, 2025 @ 11:00 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 12 km ESE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.55 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.37316894531° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.142499923706° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.469999313354 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km ESE 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	2025-12-07 11:00:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-07 11:08:11	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	194	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08506	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.119999997 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv74846967	Id of event.
Event Code	74846967	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rt4h,hv74846967,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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