13 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii

2026-05-23 07:46 UTC · 23 km deep · released about 13 kilotons of TNT

Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.

When: 2026-05-23 07:46 UTC
Magnitude: M 6.0 (ml)
Depth: 23 km below the surface
Felt: 7208 reports · strongest reported intensity VII
Measured shaking: intensity VII (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert: yellow
Nearest: Hawaii County, 46 km NE
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 9 days ago · we first saw it 9 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 7208 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 13 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 7.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 51× the energy of this one
Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 26× the energy of this one
Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 13× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 6.0 about 13 kilotons of TNT
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 1.7× more
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 2.5× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log₁₀E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

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Epicentre 19.3403, -155.8425. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Hawaii County, HI	46 km (28 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Hawaii County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

44 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

2.0 6 km S of Pāhala, Hawaii 21:50 UTC
2.1 15 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii 08:02 UTC
1.9 4 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaii 04:12 UTC
2.0 2 km SW of Pāhala, Hawaii 23:17 UTC
1.7 14 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii 15:23 UTC
1.9 7 km S of Pāhala, Hawaii 08:41 UTC
2.3 9 km E of Naalehu, Hawaii 08:36 UTC
1.9 8 km NE of Naalehu, Hawaii 08:24 UTC
2.1 22 km W of Volcano, Hawaii 02:58 UTC
1.5 0 km NW of Pāhala, Hawaii 20:37 UTC
1.7 14 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii 16:07 UTC
1.9 11 km N of Pāhala, Hawaii 11:52 UTC
1.8 19 km SSW of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii 10:41 UTC
1.9 20 km WNW of Volcano, Hawaii 06:04 UTC
2.4 9 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii 05:50 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 07:42 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.9 on 2024-02-09.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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