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Minor earthquake 2.82 mag, 28 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2816658S, -156.0756683WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Captain Cook in Hawaii. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:57:56 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70643652. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70643652. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 20:57:56 / October 10, 2018 @ 8:57 pm. Exact location, longitude -156.0756683° West, latitude 19.2816658° North, depth = 102.01 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 102.01 km (63 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Kailua (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.0756683° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2816658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2018-10-10 20:57:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-10 21:03:36 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 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 278 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 hv70643652 Id of event.
Event Code 70643652 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70643652, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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