6 km ESE of P?hala, Hawaii

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

USGS catalogues this as other event, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 380 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 40,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 29,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.5× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 380 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 19.1768, -155.4242. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.0 4 km S of P?hala, Hawaii 08:16 UTC
2. 2.0 6 km SW of P?hala, Hawaii 08:10 UTC
3. 1.9 6 km S of P?hala, Hawaii 08:08 UTC
4. 1.7 8 km SE of P?hala, Hawaii 07:27 UTC
5. 2.2 8 km E of P?hala, Hawaii 06:40 UTC
6. 1.8 21 km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii 03:56 UTC
7. 2.4 5 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii 02:15 UTC
8. 1.7 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 23:10 UTC
9. 1.7 7 km W of Volcano, Hawaii 16:14 UTC
10. 2.5 8 km NNW of P?hala, Hawaii 00:03 UTC
11. 2.2 13 km SE of Fern Forest, Hawaii 10:51 UTC
12. 1.8 14 km S of Fern Forest, Hawaii 05:27 UTC
13. 3.0 14 km S of Fern Forest, Hawaii 02:43 UTC
14. 1.9 17 km W of Volcano, Hawaii 23:56 UTC
15. 1.7 25 km NNW of P?hala, Hawaii 18:42 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 23:38 UTC. 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 6.9 on 2018-05-04 — it released about 1,800,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.