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Minor earthquake: M3.69 quake has struck near Captain Cook in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4911671S, -155.9869995WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.69 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Captain Cook in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.9869995° West, 19.4911671° North, depth 4.91 km. Event id: hv70350251. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70350251. The temblor was detected at 12:29:18 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 22:29:18 / July 1, 2018 @ 10:29 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.91 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days nine hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 6 km W of Captain Cook, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.69 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.9869995° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4911671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km W 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 2018-07-01 22:29:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-01 22:34:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 209 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 hv70350251 Id of event.
Event Code 70350251 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70350251, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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