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M 2.9ml

6 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii

· 1.4 km deep · released about 650 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
1.4 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Hawaii County, 36 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 939 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 650 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 23,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 650 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 19.3865, -155.2467. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hawaii County, HI 36 km (22 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Hawaii County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii
  2. 2.3 3 km WSW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  3. 1.6 2 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  4. 1.9 9 km E of Pāhala, Hawaii
  5. 2.7 2 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  6. 1.9 1 km WSW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  7. 2.0 7 km WSW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  8. 2.1 14 km NE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  9. 2.3 13 km NE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  10. 1.7 8 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii
  11. 1.8 7 km W of Pāhala, Hawaii
  12. 1.9 16 km NE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  13. 1.8 14 km S of Volcano, Hawaii
  14. 1.7 13 km NE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  15. 2.2 12 km S of Fern Forest, 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 1,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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