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M 3.2ml

57 km WSW of Captain Cook, Hawaii

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

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
37 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hawaii County, 102 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 765 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 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 19.2673, -156.4103. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hawaii County, HI 102 km (63 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hawaii County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 12 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  2. 2.6 58 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  3. 3.3 16 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  4. 2.8 36 km WSW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii
  5. 3.2 31 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  6. 3.0 44 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii
  7. 4.4 53 km W of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii
  8. 2.4 60 km WSW of Captain Cook, Hawaii
  9. 1.9 36 km WSW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  10. 1.9 25 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii
  11. 3.6 44 km SW of Captain Cook, Hawaii
  12. 2.6 46 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  13. 1.9 18 km WSW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii
  14. 2.5 25 km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
  15. 2.6 56 km SW of Captain Cook, 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.

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