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Minor earthquakes rattle Hawaii's Big Island, Puget Sound area

The quake was too small to generate a tsunami, according to the National Weather Service US Tsunami Warning System

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Representational images. Pic/iStock

Representational images. Pic/iStock

Hundreds of people reported feeling minor earthquakes of similar intensity on Hawaii's Big Island and on the Olympic Peninsula northwest of Seattle, but no damage was reported.

The earthquakes on Saturday afternoon in Hawaii and Sunday morning in Washington state were over 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometres) apart and apparently unrelated.

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