No reports of damage after a magnitude 3.3 quake rattles Big Island
A small earthquake rattled Hawaii island today, but there were no reports of damage.
The quake, magnitude-3.3, had an epicenter 29 miles east-southeast of Kailua-Kona and 39 miles west-southwest of Hilo, on the flanks of Mauna Loa.
It struck at 11:57 a.m. at a depth of 1.7 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
At least four slighty larger quakes shook the so-called Ring of Fire around the Pacific today.
A quake with magnitude 4.9 happened at 1:28 a.m., Hawaii time, in a tectonic area known as the East Pacific Rise, 1,240 miles north of Easter Island (Rapa Nui.)
A magnitude-5.6 quake struck at 3:10 a.m., Hawaii time, just south of Mindanao in the Philippines.
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A magnitude-4.5 earthquake struck at 9:01 a.m., Hawaii time, just west of Russia’s Kuril Islands. And a magnitude-4.1 quake struck at 1:13 p.m. just south of the western Aleutian Islands.
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Need to have a magnitude 5 or 6 or 7 earthquake to do serious damage. Thank goodness those magnitudes of earthquakes are possible only on The Big Island, not to wish the big island any danger. The Big Island is just about the worst place to live in the main Hawaiian Islands, due to possible earthquakes, tsunami, hurricanes and volcanos.
It’s why although the big island has the most land mass, the population density there is the smallest and also why there aren’t any high rise buildings there. Building tall multistory structures on the Big Island is the most challenging Engineering and Architectural feat in the State of Hawaii. Alaska ranks worse and California the worst, as far as Earthquake designs.