QuakeIndex

Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 2.0md

10 km SSE of Kapaau, Hawaii

· 21 km deep · released about 27 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hawaii County 67 kmMaui County 117 km
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 2.0 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hawaii County, 67 km SSE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 886 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 27 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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 20.1380, -155.7805. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hawaii County, HI 67 km (41 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hawaii County
Maui County, HI 117 km (73 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Maui County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 14 km NNE of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  2. 1.8 6 km ENE of Kukuihaele, Hawaii
  3. 2.7 10 km SW of Honoka‘a, Hawaii
  4. 1.9 6 km SSW of Kukuihaele, Hawaii
  5. 2.8 19 km W of Hāwī, Hawaii
  6. 1.9 19 km SSE of Waikoloa, Hawaii
  7. 2.0 26 km SE of Waimea, Hawaii
  8. 2.3 1 km WSW of Waikoloa, Hawaii
  9. 2.3 10 km NW of Kukuihaele, Hawaii
  10. 2.6 14 km E of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  11. 1.7 13 km E of Kalaoa, Hawaii
  12. 1.9 26 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii
  13. 3.4 12 km S of Waikoloa, Hawaii
  14. 1.9 8 km W of Puako, Hawaii
  15. 2.3 11 km SSW of Honoka‘a, 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 5.3 on 2019-04-14 — it released about 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.