5.0-magnitude earthquake hits Hawaii’s Big Island

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck Hawaii’s Big Island.

Thursday’s temblor is the latest and largest in a series of hundreds of smaller earthquakes to shake the island.

The quake hit about 11 miles south of Fern Acres, Hawaii with a depth of 4 miles.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the quake was not strong enough to trigger a tsunami.

Since Monday, hundreds of earthquakes — most of them around 2.0 magnitude — have been recorded in the area. The series of earthquakes came after a collapse of a crater floor of Puʻu ʻŌʻō, which is a volcanic cone in the eastern rift zone of the Kīlauea Volcano.

Since that collapse, about 250 earthquakes were reported in the area into Tuesday evening, according to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory status report.