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M 2.8ml

8 km E of Pepeekeo, Hawaii

· 12 km deep · released about 450 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hawaii County, 56 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2274 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 450 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 34,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 24,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 450 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 19.8398, -155.0307. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hawaii County, HI 56 km (35 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Hawaii County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

24 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.2 0 km WNW of Pepeekeo, Hawaii
  2. 2.0 50 km NE of Honomu, Hawaii
  3. 1.7 10 km ENE of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii
  4. 1.8 22 km WSW of Pepeekeo, Hawaii
  5. 1.6 Island of Hawaii, Hawaii
  6. 2.0 16 km WSW of Hilo, Hawaii
  7. 1.9 2 km S of Ainaloa, Hawaii
  8. 2.4 5 km E of Leilani Estates, Hawaii
  9. 1.8 12 km SE of Eden Roc, Hawaii
  10. 2.0 9 km E of P?pa‘ikou, Hawaii
  11. 1.8 15 km S of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii
  12. 2.3 11 km SE of Eden Roc, Hawaii
  13. 3.1 4 km ESE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii
  14. 1.7 15 km N of Volcano, Hawaii
  15. 2.0 45 km ENE of Honomu, Hawaii

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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