Minor earthquake: M3.41 quake has struck near Captain Cook in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Captain Cook in Hawaii on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.560000419617 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 16:45:12 / December 10, 2024 @ 4:45 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:45:12 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -156.23100280762° West, latitude 19.243999481201° North, depth = 11.560000419617 km. Event id: hv74561667. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv74561667.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Hōlualoa, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (31 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.23100280762° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.243999481201° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.560000419617 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km SW 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	2024-12-10 16:45:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-10 16:49:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	180	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.46	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.239999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	238	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	hv74561667	Id of event.
Event Code	74561667	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74561667,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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