COURTESY USGS A magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook the west facet of Hawaii island simply earlier than midnight on Saturday, in keeping with the U.S. Geological Survey. A magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook the west facet of Hawaii island late Saturday evening. The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned the quake was centered lower than 2 miles east-northeast …
COURTESY USGS
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook the west facet of Hawaii island simply earlier than midnight on Saturday, in keeping with the U.S. Geological Survey.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook the west facet of Hawaii island late Saturday evening.
The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned the quake was centered lower than 2 miles east-northeast of Kailua-Kona at a depth of about 7 miles at 11:50 p.m. Saturday.
There was no risk of a tsunami, in keeping with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Heart.
The USGS’ “Did you are feeling it?” self-reported on-line survey recorded greater than 1,000 responses inside the first hour of the earthquake, with most coming from the Kailua-Kona space however from so far as Kauai.
The USGS’ Hawaiian Volcano Observatory mentioned in an in a single day assertion that that is the second earthquake with a magnitude larger than 4.0 beneath Hualalai volcano within the final 25 years.
“This occasion was primarily lateral slip alongside a sub-vertical fault and doesn’t seem like immediately associated to magmatic exercise. Aftershocks are possible, and a few could also be felt,” mentioned the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientist-in-charge Ken Hon mentioned the earthquake had no obvious impact on Mauna Loa or Kilauea Volcano’s ongoing summit eruption. Monitoring networks haven’t detected any important modifications in exercise on the summit or alongside the rift zones of Kilauea ensuing from the earthquake.
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