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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag strikes near Captain Cook in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.206333333333S, -156.20816666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Captain Cook in Hawaii on Monday. Exact location, longitude -156.20816666667° West, latitude 19.206333333333° North, depth = 34.91 km. Unique identifier: hv74640027. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74640027. The temblor was reported at 05:24:40 / 5:24 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 34.91 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/03/25 / 2025-03-24 05:24:40 / March 24, 2025 @ 5:24 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Hōlualoa, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.20816666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.206333333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 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 2025-03-24 05:24:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-25 19:33:20 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 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 136 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 270 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv74640027 Id of event.
Event Code 74640027 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv74640027, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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