Earthquakes in Hawaii

Latest earthquakes in Hawaii, United States: 11 in the last 24 hours, 404 in the last 30 days. Updated Nov 10, 2026 00:18 UTC.

Earthquakes in Hawaii are tied to the volcanoes of the Big Island rather than to a plate boundary. Some are caused by magma moving beneath Kilauea and Mauna Loa. Others occur when the volcano's huge south flank slips slowly toward the sea, or when the weight of the island bends the oceanic plate below it. The strongest earthquake in the USGS catalog for the state is the magnitude 7.7 Kalapana earthquake of November 29, 1975, which also caused a local tsunami. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake on May 4, 2018 accompanied the start of Kilauea's lower East Rift Zone eruption. The catalog also contains an estimate of about magnitude 7.9 for the great Kaʻū earthquake of April 3, 1868, based on historical accounts of shaking, a landslide and a tsunami. Most Hawaiian earthquakes are small and clustered on the Big Island, as you can see in the list below, which covers the last 30 days.