A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook Hawaii Island at 9:46 p.m., striking about 3.7 miles east-southeast of the Honaunau-Napoopoo area on the western flank of Mauna Loa in South Kona. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami was generated.
Strong shaking was felt well beyond the island where the quake started. Residents reported the tremor in Kailua, Ewa Beach and Kapolei on Oahu, while Hawaii News Now also received calls from Makawao and Wailuku on Maui. The shaking reached as far away as Omao on Kauai, underscoring how broadly the earthquake was felt across the state.
The quake was centered about seven miles east-southeast of Honaunau, in a part of Hawaii Island that sits close to the lower western slopes of Mauna Loa. That location helped explain why people on multiple islands noticed it so quickly, even though the event did not produce a tsunami.
For now, the main question is not whether the earthquake was felt — it plainly was — but how much more shaking people may remember from a night when the ground moved across the islands and the warning everyone was waiting for never came.
