The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported the quake as a magnitude-4.2, occurring at 7:41 a.m.
According to HVO, the tremor was 45 miles west-northwest of Kalaoa, Hawaiʻi at a depth of 0.6 miles.
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No tsunami is expected after a magnitude-4.0 earthquake rumbled in the deep ocean south of Kaho‘olawe this morning, July 7.
The quake was 49 miles east-southeast of Kalaoa and Kailua-Kona.
This is the second earthquake that has rattled offshore of the Big Island within days of each other. A magnitude-5.2 earthquake rumbled less than three miles north and offshore of Waipiʻo Valley, at a depth of 17 miles below sea level.
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