Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag was detected near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -155.50883483887° West, latitude 19.133333206177° North, depth = 33.889999389648 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv74861567. Unique identifier: hv74861567. The temblor was detected at 15:34:51 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.889999389648 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 27/12/25 / 2025-12-27 15:34:51 / December 27, 2025 @ 3:34 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. 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: 8 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.08 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.50883483887° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.133333206177° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.889999389648 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km SSW 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	2025-12-27 15:34:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-27 15:38:28	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	146	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	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04933	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.140000001 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	hv74861567	Id of event.
Event Code	74861567	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74861567,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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