Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Kapaau in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kapaau in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv61208741. Unique identifier: hv61208741. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/03/16 / 2016-03-21 19:28:46 / March 21, 2016 @ 7:28 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.39 km (15 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:28:46 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.81633 West, latitude 20.1439991 North, depth = 23.39 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Kailua, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.81633° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.1439991° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km S of Kapaau, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-21 19:28:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-21 19:35:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	122	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04108	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	288	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	hv61208741	Id of event.
Event Code	61208741	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61208741,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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