The U.S. Geological Survey said Friday that a magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck the Big Island of Hawaii with some shaking reported about 200 miles away in…
The U.S. Geological Survey said Friday that a magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck the Big Island of Hawaii with some shaking reported about 200 miles away in Honolulu.about 10 a.m. local time was centered 11 miles south of Naalehu, Hawaii, at a depth of 6 miles. No tsunami warning was expected, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.on the island of Oahu, according to the USGS Did You Feel It? page. Several aftershocks followed in the same area.
Roth said he was headed to the Honolulu airport to try to get an earlier flight back to the Big Island. Julia Neal, the owner of Pahala Plantation Cottages, said a mirror and brass lamp fell down during some forceful shaking. “We have a lot of the old wooden plantations homes and so they were rattling pretty loudly.”
Derek Nelson, the manager of the Kona Canoe Club restaurant in the Kona Inn Shopping Village in the oceanside community of Kona, on the island’s western side, said everyone felt it “big time,” but that there was no damage. “I mean, it shook us bad to where it wobbled some knees a little bit. It shook all the windows in the village,” he said.
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