Updated at 7:58 a.m., Wednesday, May 2, 2007
No tsunami threat after 3.5 quake hits Big Island
Advertiser Staff
U.S. Geological Survey at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported a 3.5-magnitude earthquake that struck the Big Island at 5:35 this morning.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued no warnings or postings from the quake.
The earthquake occurred about two miles from 'O'okala and about four miles from Pa'auilo.
Its center was about six miles deep.
The magnitude of morning's earthquake was significantly less than that of the 6.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked Hawai'i in mid-October.
That powerful earthquake, which destroyed several homes on the Big Island and damaged hundreds of other residential, business and government structures across the state, turned out to be the most powerful seismic event in the United States last year, according to U.S. Geological Survey data.
