The US Geological Survey said on Friday that a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck south of the Big Island of Hawaii.
The earthquake, initially reported by the USGS as a magnitude 6.3 before downgrading it, was centered 11 miles (18 kilometers) south of Naalehu, Hawaii, at a depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami was expected.
Some tremors were felt in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) to the north.
“Many areas may experience strong shaking,” from the earthquake that struck just after 10 a.m. local time, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency posted on X. It also reiterated that there was no tsunami threat.
Big Island Mayor Mitch Roth is in Honolulu at a cardiologist appointment. “All of a sudden I felt like I was getting dizzy,” she said, at first thinking it was a procedure and then realizing it was an earthquake. He immediately called his emergency management officer.
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“We’ll probably start hearing about damage in an hour to an hour,” Roth said, pointing out that it was a “good-sized earthquake” and from what he’s heard, there’s no tsunami threat.
Roth said he was headed to the Honolulu airport to try to get an early flight back to the Big Island.
Julia Neal, owner of Pahala Plantation Cottages, said mirrors and brass lamps fell during several strong tremors. “We have a lot of old wooden farmhouses and so they shake pretty hard.”
Derek Nelson, manager of the Kona Canoe Club restaurant at the Kona Inn Shopping Village in the oceanfront community of Kona, on the west side of the island, said everyone felt it “big time,” but there was no damage.
“I mean, it shook us so badly that it made the knees a little wobbly. It shook all the windows in the village,” he said.
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