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6.7 Magnitude Earthquake on October 15, 2006 Island of Hawaii, Hawaii

A strong earthquake occurred October 15, 2006 at about 1:07 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time near Puako, Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.   The magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred 38.9 kilometers (24.2 miles) underground.

For more information on this event, see this USGS site:  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/ustwbh.php#details
The earthquake was recorded on instruments in the Kentucky Seismic and Strong Motion Network, operated jointly by the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kentucky.

The graphic below is the actual record of the earthquake made by 9 Network instruments.

 

earthquake recording

As a result of this earthquake numerous people suffered minor injuries, many buildings damaged and landslides blocked roads on Hawaii. Power outages occurred throughout the Hawaiian Islands.  Earthquakes on the volcanic Island of Hawaii are not rare. The largest on record was the magnitude 7.9 1868 earthquake which triggered a tsunami that drowned 46 people and spawned numerous landslides that resulted in 31 deaths. In the vicinity of the recent earthquake, a magnitude 6.9 tremor struck on August 21st 1951 that damaged scores of homes on the Kona coast and triggered numerous damaging landslides.

 

 

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