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Observed earthquake

12 km SSE of Fern Forest, Hawaii

Recent observation

Reported by 2 agencies. Every solution below is that agency's own measurement, stored unaltered.

Magnitude
3.1ml
Depth
6.1 km
shallow
Origin time
2026-10-13 01:09:08 UTC
18 d ago
Epicentre
19.36°N, 155.08°W

Agency solutions

The same earthquake as measured independently by each agency. Values are never averaged or rewritten.

Recent observation
AgencyMagnitudeDepthOrigin timeEpicentreReview statusSource record
EMSCEuropean-Mediterranean Seismological CentreM3.3 ml11 km2026-10-13 01:09:08 UTC19.38°N, 155.06°WNot stated20261013_0000012 ↗
USGSUnited States Geological SurveyM3.1 ml6.1 km2026-10-13 01:09:08 UTC19.36°N, 155.08°WReviewed by an analyst57 stationshv75055022 ↗

Source: Earthquake data from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) via SeismicPortal. · Retrieved: 2026-10-13 01:28:19 UTC · grouped with match confidence 100%

Source: Earthquake data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. · Retrieved: 2026-10-13 01:28:17 UTC

Why the agencies differ

Historical data

Differences of a few tenths of a magnitude unit and tens of kilometres are normal and expected. Each agency uses a different set of seismic stations, a different velocity model for the Earth's interior, and sometimes a different magnitude scale altogether. None of them is “wrong”; they are independent measurements of the same event.

Prakruti groups solutions only when they agree closely in both time and location, and shows the preferred solution — favouring an analyst-reviewed moment magnitude where one exists — while keeping every other solution visible above.

Felt reports

Recent observation
6 people submitted a felt report to United States Geological Survey · community intensity estimate 2.7.

Felt reports are crowd-sourced and reflect where people had internet access and chose to respond. They are not a complete map of who felt the earthquake.