Nov. 29, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the largest Hawaiʻi earthquake–a magnitude-7.7 with over 30 seconds of shaking across the islands of Hawaiʻi, Maui and Oahu–in the 20th and

A magnitude-4.6 earthquake struck the southern flank of Kilauea volcano just before midnight Tuesday. Scientists with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the moderate quake hit at 11:49 p.m. and was centered about 9 miles south-southeast of Fern Forest at a depth of 3 miles below sea level.

HONOLULU (AP) — Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new alerts along South America’s Pacific coast forced ...

Tsunami alerts have been lifted in several parts of the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia A tsunami warning was also issued for Japan and Guam, while coastal areas of Hawaii were evacuated The ...

More damaging than the earthquake was the fatal tsunami that swept the island’s shores shortly afterwards. Campers at Halape, on the south coast in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, were awakened by the shaking and by rockfalls from the pali above that the shaking triggered.