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Updated at 11:23 a.m.,
Thursday, May 24, 2007

4.7 quake, 4.1 aftershock shake
Kilauea volcano

Advertiser Staff
HILO, Hawai'i — A magnitude-4.7 earthquake
centered beneath Kilauea volcano's east rift zone jolted the Big
Island this morning, and was followed by a smaller aftershock.

The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said
the temblor was the largest in that particular area in at least the
last 50 years. Since 1998, only a few earthquakes with magnitudes
greater than 4.0 have occurred at shallow depths beneath the
upper-east rift zone.

The first earthquake at 9:13 a.m. was located beneath the
upper-east rift zone of Kilauea volcano near Puhimau crater, and was
about a mile deep.

A magnitude-4.1 aftershock followed at 9:33 a.m. That quake was
about a mile farther downrift beneath Koko'olau crater.

USGS said the earthquakes are the largest so far in a flurry of
earthquakes in the upper-east and southwest rift zones that started
on May 12.

Earthquakes sometimes signal the beginning of an eruption or a
change in the ongoing eruption, but the recent earthquake flurry has
not been accompanied by any unusual swelling of the summit or other
signs of unusual summit activity, scientists said.

Kilauea began its current eruption on Jan. 3, 1983.

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