Magnitude 3.8 earthquake strikes off Kona Coast

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West Hawaii residents were awakened Monday morning to a magnitude 3.8 earthquake that struck in waters off the Kona Coast.

West Hawaii residents were awakened Monday morning to a magnitude 3.8 earthquake that struck in waters off the Kona Coast.

The temblor hit at 5:39 a.m. about 8.5 miles west-northwest of Kailua-Kona, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. It had a registered depth of 6.8 miles.

Some 160 residents in the South Kohala, North Kona, South Kona and Kaʻu districts reported feeling the earthquake, according to the USGS.