#quake Hawaii

There is no tsunami expected after a 4.1 preliminary magnitude earthquake reported at 7:44 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020 on the Western Flank of Mauna Loa on Hawaiʻi Island.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is reporting a preliminary magnitude 3.6 earthquake reported overnight at 9:47 p.m. HST on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, near Honokaʻa on Hawaiʻi Island. There were no advisories issued following the quake.

There were no immediate advisories issued following a 3.5 preliminary magnitude earthquake reported at 10:44 a.m. on Hawaiʻi Island.

There were no immediate advisories issued following a 2.6 earthquake reported at 12:42 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, NW of the Kīlauea Summit on Hawaiʻi Island.

There were no immediate advisories issued following a preliminary 3.0 magnitude earthquake on Hawaiʻi Island.

Scientists say it’s likely that high rates of seismicity could continue for several days. Officials say the earthquake swarm has not caused any obvious changes in Kilauea’s magma plumbing system or ongoing eruptions; but that the magnitude 4.3 quake did cause a small rockfall in the active vent located within Halema‘uma‘u Crater at the summit of Kilauea.

A swarm of small earthquakes were reported near the summit of Kilauea yesterday with more than 60 tremors documented over a 14 hour period.

A 4.4 magnitude quake rattled the Big Island Monday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.  Readings from the Hawaii Volcano Observatory were slightly higher, measuring the quake at a 4.5 magnitude tremor.  The earthquake was reported at 6:30 p.m. 13 miles south west of Laupahoehoe, Hawaii on the eastern slopes of Mauna Kea.  There […]