M5.7 Earthquake Strikes off Sicily's Aeolian Islands

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Italy's Aeolian Islands at 12:19 p.m. local time (10:19 a.m. UTC) on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The agency put the epicenter 61 kilometers west-northwest of Leni, in the island chain off Sicily's northern coast, at a depth of 10 kilometers.

USGS's ShakeMap model found no area reached shaking intensity V. About 87,600 people were in a zone of light shaking, intensity IV, and about 1.46 million more, including the Sicilian mainland to the south, were in a wider zone of weak shaking, intensity III. The agency's loss estimate for the quake found "a low likelihood of casualties and damage."