Small earthquake centered off Hawaii island
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The dots in blue show the location of two earthquakes greater than magnitude 3.0 in Hawaii over the last two days. The dots in yellow show earthquakes with a magnitude 3.0 or higher over the last two weeks.
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck off the coast of the Big Island early Tuesday morning.
The epicenter was about 32 miles west-northwest of Kailua-Kona at a depth of about 7.7 miles at about 3:17 a.m.
No tsunami alerts were issued and only a few responses from Hilo and Kailua-Kona were posted on the U.S. Geological Survey’s “Did You Feel It?” website.
On Monday, another minor earthquake with an estimated 3.2 magnitude struck at about 12:49 p.m., about 2.2 miles south-southwest of Paauilo on the Hamakua Coast at a depth of about 5.5 miles.
That earqhuake was felt along the Hamakua Coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s “Did You Feel It?” website.