Hawaii’s largest earthquake in more than 40 years shook the Big Island near the newly erupting Kilauea volcano on Friday while thousands of residents evacuated the area.
The magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck at about 12:30 p.m. local time and was in almost the same location as a deadly magnitude-7.1 quake in 1975, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The strong quake followed a magnitude-5.4 earthquake about an hour earlier in the day. The state has been hit with hundreds of earthquakes in recent days, along with lava flows threatening homes on the Big Island.
Thousands of residents in the Eastern Puna District of the island were under mandatory evacuation orders on Friday.
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