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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

38 km NW of Kalaoa, Hawaii

· 42 km deep · released about 800 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (md)
Depth
42 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hawaii County, 89 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1095 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 800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 800 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 19.9380, -156.2745. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hawaii County, HI 89 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hawaii County
Maui County, HI 108 km (67 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Maui County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 4 km WSW of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  2. 1.8 14 km SSW of Puako, Hawaii
  3. 2.2 0 km NW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  4. 2.0 12 km ENE of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  5. 2.2 5 km NNW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  6. 2.3 18 km W of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  7. 3.1 25 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  8. 1.9 22 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  9. 2.7 15 km SW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  10. 2.0 20 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  11. 3.4 20 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  12. 2.4 50 km WSW of Hāwī, Hawaii
  13. 1.8 27 km W of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  14. 1.7 14 km W of Puako, Hawaii
  15. 3.6 3 km WSW of Hōlualoa, 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 2022-05-22 — it released about 380 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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