Urgent: 5.5-magnitude quake hits Hawaii -- GFZ-Xinhua

Urgent: 5.5-magnitude quake hits Hawaii -- GFZ

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2026-08-12 12:24:00

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted Hawaii at 0348 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 19.09 degrees north latitude and 155.40 degrees west longitude.