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M 2.3ml

34 km S of M?kena, Hawaii

· 34 km deep · released about 94 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
34 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Maui County, 58 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2395 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 94 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 94 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 20.3472, -156.4615. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Maui County, HI 58 km (36 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Maui County
Kalawao County, HI 111 km (69 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kalawao County
Hawaii County, HI 130 km (81 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hawaii County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 28 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii
  2. 2.5 47 km SSW of Mākena, Hawaii
  3. 2.1 60 km WNW of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  4. 3.1 48 km SSW of Mākena, Hawaii
  5. 2.8 19 km W of Hāwī, Hawaii
  6. 2.4 50 km WSW of Hāwī, Hawaii
  7. 3.4 78 km SSW of Mākena, Hawaii
  8. 3.9 64 km SSW of Mākena, Hawaii
  9. 3.2 32 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii
  10. 3.0 38 km NW of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  11. 3.2 36 km WNW of Puako, Hawaii
  12. 2.5 Maui region, Hawaii
  13. 4.0 28 km SSW of Hana, Hawaii
  14. 2.3 23 km WSW of H?w?, Hawaii
  15. 3.8 46 km S of Lanai City, 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 4.2 on 2017-07-30 — it released about 660 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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