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M 3.2ml

3 km N of Kukuihaele, Hawaii

· 39 km deep · released about 1,700 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
16 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Hawaii County, 62 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 853 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 16 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,700 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 9,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,700 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.7× more

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 20.1548, -155.5737. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hawaii County, HI 62 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hawaii County
Maui County, HI 132 km (82 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. 1.8 9 km SSW of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii
  2. 2.4 4 km NE of Hala‘ula, Hawaii
  3. 2.1 21 km SW of Laupāhoehoe, Hawaii
  4. 1.8 21 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii
  5. 1.7 22 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii
  6. 1.8 24 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii
  7. 2.0 22 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii
  8. 1.9 28 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii
  9. 1.8 28 km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii
  10. 2.1 11 km SW of Waikoloa, Hawaii
  11. 1.7 25 km SSW of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii
  12. 2.1 14 km SW of Pa‘auilo, Hawaii
  13. 2.0 7 km SSW of Kukuihaele, Hawaii
  14. 2.0 15 km SW of Laupāhoehoe, Hawaii
  15. 1.8 6 km ENE of Kukuihaele, 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 5.2 on 2021-07-05 — it released about 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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