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M 2.6md

56 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii

· 31 km deep · released about 220 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (md)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hawaii County, 100 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1656 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 220 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 70,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 50,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 220 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 19.1928, -156.3548. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hawaii County, HI 100 km (62 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hawaii County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 16 km WNW of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii
  2. 2.5 11 km W of Captain Cook, Hawaii
  3. 2.5 11 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii
  4. 3.3 Hawaii region, Hawaii
  5. 2.4 59 km WSW of Captain Cook, Hawaii
  6. 2.3 49 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  7. 2.7 26 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  8. 3.8 46 km W of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii
  9. 1.9 18 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  10. 2.5 20 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  11. 2.6 Hawaii region, Hawaii
  12. 3.3 90 km W of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii
  13. 2.1 8 km WSW of Captain Cook, Hawaii
  14. 2.3 20 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  15. 3.5 55 km WSW of Captain Cook, 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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