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M 1.9md

Earthquake near Hawaiian Ocean View, HI

USGS: 22 km SE of Naalehu, Hawaii

11:20 am HST, Oct 1, 2026 · · 32 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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When
11:20 am HST on 1 October 2026 ()
Where
40 km (25 mi) ESE of Hawaiian Ocean View, HI · earthquakes near Hawaiian Ocean View
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
32 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hawaii County, 73 km N
Nearest mapped fault
Lo'ihi Seamount, 14 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 28 hours ago

A magnitude 1.9 earthquake was recorded 40 km (25 mi) ESE of Hawaiian Ocean View, HI, at 11:20 am HST on 1 October 2026 (21:20 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Discovery Harbor, Pāhala.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 730,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 520,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 46× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 6.2 on 2021-10-10 — about 3,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 24 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 6.2 21 km N of Pahala, Hawaii · 50 km N of this epicentre
  2. 6.1 11 km SE of Naalehu, Hawaii · 12 km WNW of this epicentre
  3. 6.1 12 km S of Volcano, Hawaii · 45 km NNE of this epicentre
  4. 5.8 Kilauea area, Hawaii · 12 km WNW of this epicentre
  5. 5.7 15 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii · 42 km NNE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 18.9498, -155.4012. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Hawaii County, HI 73 km (45 mi) N earthquakes near Hawaii County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 13 km SSE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  2. 1.7 11 km NE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  3. 1.8 1 km SSE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  4. 1.7 11 km E of Pāhala, Hawaii
  5. 1.5 14 km ESE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  6. 1.9 11 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii
  7. 1.9 3 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  8. 1.8 6 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  9. 1.8 25 km ESE of Naalehu, Hawaii
  10. 1.7 9 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii
  11. 1.9 23 km ESE of Naalehu, Hawaii
  12. 2.3 9 km SW of Wai‘ōhinu, Hawaii
  13. 1.9 4 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  14. 1.9 1 km NW of Pāhala, Hawaii
  15. 1.8 22 km SSE of Pāhala, 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.

On USGS

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