{"id":548,"date":"2026-06-12T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:37:09","slug":"researchers-deploy-sensors-in-aftermath-of-6-0-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Researchers deploy sensors in aftermath of 6.0 quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Following the magnitude-6.0 earthquake that rocked Hawaii Island on May 22, researchers from the University of Hawaii have been at work trying to better understand the cause and implications of the event, which damaged about 150 structures.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=546\">Mexico gets World Cup party started with win<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Following the magnitude-6.0 earthquake that rocked Hawaii Island on May 22, researchers from the University of Hawaii have been at work trying to better understand the cause and implications of the event, which damaged about 150 structures.<\/p>\n<p>Sin-Mei Wu, a seismologist at UH Manoa, was at the site of the earthquake\u2019s epicenter \u2013 about 7 miles south of Honaunau-Napo\u2018opo\u2018o on the Kona side \u2013 last week with a team of researchers to deploy an array of seismic sensors.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the U.S. Geological Survey\u2019s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory maintains a network of sensors across the island, Wu said they are primarily concentrated in areas of high volcanic activity, and there were very few near the Honaunau area.<\/p>\n<p>She and her team set up a total of 30 temporary, portable sensors at 15 different locations around Pu\u2018uhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park to capture and observe potential aftershocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is our goal. We want to capture all of the aftershocks, and then try to characterize them,\u201d she said, adding that they detected a 3.3-magnitude quake in the same area on Monday. \u201cIt does not give the same shaking, but is actually coming from the same source area as the magnitude six, so studying this type of smaller earthquake can also help us to understand what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the more frequent, lower-magnitude volcano-related quakes on the island, the May 22 event was what is known as a flexure earthquake, meaning it was caused by the tectonic plate on which Hawaii sits bending, 14 miles below sea level, due to the weight of the islands on top of it, according to USGS.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Janiszewski, another UH Manoa seismologist who works with Wu, said that Hawaii\u2019s location in relation to tectonic plates make it unique compared to many other seismically active regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the key things here is, Hawaii, we\u2019re in the middle of a tectonic plate, not at a plate boundary. Most earthquakes happen at plate boundaries along well-defined fault zones,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have a very different system here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, she said studying events like the recent quake can be more challenging without similar settings with which to compare.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=544\">\u2018I just had to follow my heart\u2019: Kona\u2019s Rhoda Magbitang on winning \u2018Top Chef\u2019 after cooking Filipino food<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike other tectonic boundaries, it\u2019s very hard for us to infer what sorts of processes govern these types of flexure earthquakes in detail, because we can\u2019t infer from analogous systems elsewhere globally quite as easily,\u201d she said. \u201cAt plate boundaries, there are analogous systems for comparison, and so this is why it\u2019s particularly important that we were able to deploy this temporary array to study this aftershock sequence, because it\u2019ll help us to better understand the fault geometry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The array of sensors will remain in place for two months, which Wu said should be long enough to capture any additional aftershocks.<\/p>\n<p>Janiszewski said it also provides a window to gather data that will provide researchers valuable insight into seismic activity in this region of West Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince this is a kind of gap in the permanent network maintained by HVO, it also just represents an opportunity to get some first-ever, high-resolution, dense seismic data in an area of the Hawaiian Islands that hasn\u2019t been studied as much,\u201d she said. \u201cThe response to the earthquake is obviously the primary driver here, but we\u2019ll definitely also be looking for more general kinds of structural information for an understudied area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Lee, a geology professor at UH Hilo, has also been involved in the project and helped coordinate the deployment of the sensors. <\/p>\n<p>He said he hopes the data collected will improve understanding of earthquakes in the islands and help communities better prepare for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t predict earthquakes. We can\u2019t tell you, \u2018well, there\u2019s going to be a magnitude five and a half in three months from now,\u2019 but we do our best to forecast them, which is to say that here\u2019s the percent chance that you\u2019re going to experience this amount of shaking in this place in the next 20 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe better the information we have, the better we can make things like our building codes and our preparations that go into things as varied as the Civil Defense warnings, to letting the emergency managers and the fire department and all these other stakeholders know what should be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=543\">NOAA declares El Nino as forecasters warn of extreme weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email Grace Inez Adams at grace.adams@hawaiitribune-herald.com.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers deploy sensors in aftermath of 6.0 quake &#8211; Hawaii News | Hawaii Tribune-Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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