Quakedle
Puzzle #43 was 2 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M5.9 — moderate class
- Magnitude type
- ml — local magnitude (the original Richter-style scale)
- Depth
- 37.0 km — shallow
- Region
- Hawaii
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 5,265 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- green PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Pacific Plate
- Tectonic context
- Hawaiian seismicity occurs within the Pacific Plate around an active hotspot and volcanic load, away from a major plate boundary.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M5.9. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Moderate (M5.0–5.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 37.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “2 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Hawaii
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- USGS received 5,265 “Did You Feel It?” reports. Which band is that?
- Very widely felt (1,000+)