Did you feel it? Earthquake reported in SC on Friday
If Midlands residents felt a slight trimmer Friday morning, they weren’t imagining it.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 2.26 magnitude earthquake was felt in central South Carolina early Friday morning.
The quake was felt around 7:25 a.m. Friday about 10 miles northwest of Winnsboro, the agency reports.
Friday’s latest rumble just a couple of weeks after the most recent shakeup in South Carolina. Two earthquakes were recorded on April 21; one of them was also in Fairfield County near Winnsboro and another was in neighboring Chester County.
This week’s quake is the 17th recorded in South Carolina so far this year, with several of them occurring in the Midlands. Six previous ones have been clustered around Lake Murray.
But most of those quakes, like Friday’s, were smaller ones. Earthquakes of 2.5 magnitude or smaller can go unnoticed by those walking around on the earth’s surface, and the S.C. Emergency Management Division has not recorded any injuries or major damage from recent S.C. quakes.
Anyone who felt tremors or heard rumbling from Friday’s earthquake can report it to the U.S. Geological Survey.
In total, 35 earthquakes registered in South Carolina last year, an increase from 30 in 2024 and 28 in 2023, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.
This story was originally published May 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM.
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