There was no tsunami generated by a 4.1 magnitude earthquake reported at 4:27 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023 about 8 miles southwest of Volcano on Hawaiʻi Island at a depth of 17 miles below sea level.
There is no tsunami threat to the Big Island or any of the Hawaiian Islands following a preliminary magnitude 4.6 earthquake that struck in deep ocean northeast of Maui. The quake occurred at 11:29 a.m. on Thursday.
The deep 3.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Big Island on May 7 is part of the swarm of earthquakes that has been occurring beneath the Pāhala region since 2019.