Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag strikes near Captain Cook in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Captain Cook in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 21:07:32 / August 17, 2016 @ 9:07 pm. Id of earthquake: hv61377861. Event ids that are associated: hv61377861. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.585 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 11:07:32 / 11:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.4265 West, latitude 19.2873333 North, depth = 43.585 km.

Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Hōlualoa, Kailua. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.4265° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2873333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.585 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km WSW of Captain Cook, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-17 21:07:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-17 21:24:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	181	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5271	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	293	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	hv61377861	Id of event.
Event Code	61377861	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61377861,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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