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M 2.1md

10 km E of P?hala, Hawaii

· 33 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
33 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hawaii County, 47 km NNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1402 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 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 19.1930, -155.3805. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hawaii County, HI 47 km (29 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Hawaii County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 Island of Hawaii, Hawaii
  2. 2.0 2 km WSW of P?hala, Hawaii
  3. 1.8 Island of Hawaii, Hawaii
  4. 2.0 2 km SSW of P?hala, Hawaii
  5. 3.0 8 km ENE of Naalehu, Hawaii
  6. 2.3 4 km SSW of P?hala, Hawaii
  7. 2.0 27 km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii
  8. 2.4 9 km NW of Volcano, Hawaii
  9. 2.3 1 km WSW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  10. 1.9 3 km S of P?hala, Hawaii
  11. 3.1 2 km WNW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  12. 2.2 12 km ESE of P?hala, Hawaii
  13. 1.7 9 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  14. 2.1 10 km SE of P?hala, Hawaii
  15. 1.8 8 km ENE of P?hala, 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 6.9 on 2018-05-04 — it released about 14,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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