A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook a remote part of Hawaii’s Big Island on Friday.
It was felt as far as Honolulu, more than 200 miles away, reports said — likely because of the depth of the earthquake, calculated at 23 miles under sea level.
An earlier estimate calculated the earthquake as magnitude 6.3.
At least 10 aftershocks of magnitude 2.5 and higher had been recorded within an hour and a half of the initial temblor, about one every 10 minutes. No tsunami occurred.
The Hawaii earthquake was not related to a magnitude 4.6 quake that struck near Malibu a couple of hours later and was felt across a wide swath of Southern California.
The earthquake on the Big Island, which occurred on the southeastern flank of Mauna Loa — the largest active volcano on the planet — had no apparent impact on it or the neighboring Kilauea volcano, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.