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M 2.8ml

39 km SSE of M?kena, Hawaii

· 14 km deep · released about 450 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity II (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Maui County, 66 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2931 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 20.3085, -156.3540. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Maui County, HI 66 km (41 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Maui County
Hawaii County, HI 119 km (74 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hawaii County
Kalawao County, HI 120 km (75 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kalawao County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 70 km WNW of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  2. 2.7 24 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii
  3. 2.2 33 km S of M?kena, Hawaii
  4. 2.8 26 km S of M?kena, Hawaii
  5. 2.3 31 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii
  6. 3.1 35 km WSW of H?w?, Hawaii
  7. 2.2 Maui region, Hawaii
  8. 3.3 27 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii
  9. 2.1 28 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii
  10. 2.6 37 km WSW of H?w?, Hawaii
  11. 2.7 32 km NW of H?w?, Hawaii
  12. 2.5 46 km WSW of H?w?, Hawaii
  13. 2.8 19 km NW of H?w?, Hawaii
  14. 2.5 38 km SSE of M?kena, Hawaii
  15. 2.4 54 km SSW of M?kena, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.7 on 2017-02-17 — it released about 660 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

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