stock here: This was huge news in the Island Chain. I was on a group chat with my crew, when it hit, guy on the North Shore, says 25 miles away says it was astounding, I noticed nothing, although others in my wide town, said they felt the quake. Some on the big island state that it was the most severe they have ever lived through, even though bigger quakes by magnitude scale have occurred.
But it’s no where near the active volcano, it’s on the far opposite flank.
It’s between Captain Cook, and Honaunau (City of Refuge), and this area does have EQ, but they are usually 2.5 to 3, with just 4 being over 4 Mag. And almost all are under 15km.
This one was 22km deep and 6.0! And a bunch of after, one of them being one of the rare 4.0 and at the same depth, so a double collapse.
One reply on “Earthquake! 6.0 Hits Odd Spot on Big Island, Felt Across Island Chain, What Made This One So Different?”
I saw a posting that said they.drove
around and folks with fancy glass windows got them shattered, but most significant life-altering damage was to
the typical Catchment that is a must
in rural Hawaii. Folks now under serious
reconsideration of the viability of that
life, already stressed by prices, reliance on cars to supply the semi-hippie fantasy life of the Island. The water slosh down the hill as the broken catchment tank provides no more, and
now more hassle, cost, and some folks are slumming out there, with constant checking of their possible flights out, like maybe Sooner than Later.