{"id":5803,"date":"2021-10-10T13:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:54:17","slug":"news-releaselocal-earthquake-off-the-coast-of-hawaii-island-no-threat-of-tsunami-to-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/news-releaselocal-earthquake-off-the-coast-of-hawaii-island-no-threat-of-tsunami-to-state\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS RELEASE: Local earthquake off the coast of Hawai`i Island No threat of tsunami to state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10\/10\/2021\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HONOLULU \u2014 An earthquake occurred at 11:49 am on Sunday, October 10, 2021, off the Kau Coast of the Big Island, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter Scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on all available data from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, there is no tsunami threat to the Hawaiian Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hawai`i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) is working with Hawai`i County Civil Defense to monitor the situation and to assess any damages that may have occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents and visitors are urged to monitor local media for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sign up for emergency wireless alerts at <a href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/get-ready\/\">dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/get-ready\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Douglas Carroll<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public Information Officer (TA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hawai`i Emergency Management Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(808) 285-1516<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">douglas.m.carroll@hawaii.gov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hollie Stark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information Specialist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hawai`i Emergency Management Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(808) 620-5423<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">hollie.reina@hawaii.gov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/10\/2021\u00a0 HONOLULU \u2014 An earthquake occurred at 11:49 am on Sunday, October 10, 2021, off the Kau Coast of the Big Island, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"11106,5478,10793,5444,3780,4909","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[352,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-2021","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15530,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions\/15530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}