I have to wonder if the nuclear test by N. Korea could have triggered the quake.
Completely absurd - it's sort of odd, there's a desperate desire for people to blame natural stuff on human actions - I think because it's scarier if stuff just happens on its own.
There are over THIRTY FIVE earthquakes a DAY as large or larger than the NK nuke test, many of them having occured closer to Hawaii than the nuke test.
And Hawaii has had a wide variety of quakes as large or larger than this one in the last 150 years, none of which were preceeded by North Korean nuclear tests.