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Latest quakes worldwide in the past 30 days - list, stats and map

Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake 56 km NNE From Neapoli widely felt -
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Mag. 5.8 earthquake North Pacific Ocean - Dededo, Guam -
Strongest past 30 daysMag. 7.4 South Atlantic Ocean - Region de Magallanes y Antartica Chilena, Chile - May 2, 2025 -
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In the past 30 days, there have been worldwide 55,079 quakes of magnitudes up to 7.4:
  • 1 quake above magnitude 7
  • 13 quakes between magnitude 6 and 7
  • 134 quakes between magnitude 5 and 6
  • 1,072 quakes between magnitude 4 and 5
  • 5,190 quakes between magnitude 3 and 4
  • 11,248 quakes between magnitude 2 and 3
  • 37,421 quakes below magnitude 2 that people normally don't feel.
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Latest quakes worldwide in the past 30 days - list, stats and map
Date and TimeMag
Depth
Nearest VolcanoLocationDetailsMap
May 28, 01:34 pm (Universal Time)
5.8

59 km
51 km SSE of Inarajan Village, Guam  I FELT IT - 54 reportsInfo
May 28, 08:57 am (Universal Time)
5.9

202 km
52 km SW of Sola, Vanuatu  I FELT IT - 1 reportInfo
May 28, 01:30 am (Universal Time)
5.9

10 km
Revilla Gigedo Islands Region  I FELT IT - 1 reportInfo
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 GMT (1 quake)
May 27, 02:59 pm (GMT -7)
5.8

10 km
Revilla Gigedo Islands Region  I FELT IT - 3 reportsInfo
Monday, May 26, 2025 GMT (1 quake)
May 26, 12:50 am (Santiago)
5.8

104 km
34 km Al S De Camiña  I FELT IT - 28 reportsInfo
Sunday, May 25, 2025 GMT (1 quake)
May 25, 11:49 pm (GMT +13)
6.0

48 km
193 km SSW of ‘Ohonua, Tonga  I FELT IT - 2 reportsInfo
Friday, May 23, 2025 GMT (1 quake)
May 24, 02:33 am (GMT +10)
6.1

10 km
West of Macquarie Island  I FELT IT - 1 reportInfo
Thursday, May 22, 2025 GMT (3 quakes)
May 23, 02:52 am (GMT +7)
6.0

84 km
Southern Sumatra, Indonesia  I FELT IT - 8 reportsInfo
May 22, 11:34 am (GMT +3)
5.7

10 km
South Indian Ocean  I FELT IT Info
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Estimated combined seismic energy released: 1.1 x 1016 joules (3130 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 2.7 x 106 tons of TNT or 168.3 atomic bombs!) | equivalent to ONE quake of magnitude 7.5 | about seismic energy

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Earthquake statistics

Average number of earthquakes

Based on data from the past 25 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 440,000 quakes on average per year worldwide:
  • Mag. 8 or higher: 0.84 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.2 years)
  • Mag. 7 or higher: 15 quakes per year
  • Mag. 6 or higher: 122 quakes per year (or 10.2 quakes per month)
  • Mag. 5 or higher: 1,900 quakes per year (or 5.3 quakes per day)
  • Mag. 4 or higher: 19,000 quakes per year (or 53 quakes per day)
  • Mag. 3 or higher: 63,000 quakes per year (or 172 quakes per day)
  • Mag. 2 or higher: 160,000 quakes per year (or 447 quakes per day)
  • Mag. 1 or higher: 340,000 quakes per year (or 931 quakes per day)

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Largest Quakes worldwide

Strongest in 10 years

The largest quake that occurred worldwide during the past 10 years was a magnitude 8.2 earthquake that hit Gulf of Alaska,  United States, 4 years ago on Wednesday, Jul 28, 2021, at 09:15 pm (GMT -9 local time). The earthquake struck in 165 km (103 mi) distance east from Sand Point at 35 km (22 mi) depth.

Strongest since 1900

65 years ago, Region del Biobio,  Chile, was hit by a magnitude 9.5 quake on Sunday, May 22, 1960, at 03:11 pm local time (America/Santiago GMT -4). This was the largest earthquake to have occurred worldwide in more than 100 years (since 1900).
Below is a list and map of the largest quakes worldwide in recent years and since 1900.
Date and TimeMag
Depth
###DIST_LABEL###LocationDetailsMap
Mar 28, 06:32 am (Universal Time)
6.7

119 km
Myanmar 24 reportsInfo
Jan 10, 2023 02:47 am (Jayapura)
7.9

131 km
Di Laut 148 Km BaratLaut MALUKUTENGGARABRT 880 reportsInfo
Aug 12, 2021 04:35 pm (GMT -2)
8.1

23 km
South Atlantic Ocean, 62 km east of Montagu Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 1 reportInfo
Jul 28, 2021 09:15 pm (GMT -9)
8.2

35 km
103 mi east of Sand Point, Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States 193 reportsInfo
Mar 5, 2021 07:28 am (GMT +12)
8.1

29 km
South Pacific Ocean, 81 km southeast of Raoul Island, New Zealand 15 reportsInfo
May 26, 2019 02:41 am (Lima)
7.9

103 km
Northern Peru 772 reportsInfo
Aug 19, 2018 12:19 pm (Fiji)
8.1

566 km
Fiji Islands Region 58 reportsInfo
Jan 23, 2018 12:31 am (GMT -9)
7.9

14 km
North Pacific Ocean, 174 mi southeast of Kodiak, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States 130 reportsInfo
Sep 7, 2017 10:49 pm (GMT -6)
8.0

60 km
Near Coast of Chiapas, Mexico 317 reportsInfo
Jan 22, 2017 03:30 pm (Bougainville)
7.8

156 km
Solomon Islands 5 reportsInfo
Mar 11, 2011 02:46 pm (GMT +9)
9.1

29 km
North Pacific Ocean, 95 km east of Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan Info
Dec 26, 2004 07:58 am (Jakarta)
9.1

30 km
2004 Sumatra - Andaman Islands Earthquake Info
Mar 27, 1964 06:36 pm (Anchorage)
9.2

25 km
37 mi southwest of Valdez, Chugach Census Area, Alaska, United States Info
May 22, 1960 03:11 pm (Santiago)
9.5

25 km
38 km south of Cañete, Arauco, Region del Biobio, Chile 1 reportInfo
Nov 5, 1952 04:58 am (GMT +12)
9.0

22 km
89 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia Info

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