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Total: 00 earthquakes today

Latest magnitude 4.5+ earthquake today

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M5, 255 km SE of Katsuura, Japan,Thursday 16th April 2026 16:43 GMT
Latest M 5+ earthquakes
earthquake M 5, 255 km SE of Katsuura, Japan
Thursday 16th April 2026 16:43 GMT
Depth: 67 km

earthquake M 6, south of the Kermadec Islands
Thursday 16th April 2026 15:30 GMT
Depth: 10 km

earthquake M 5.2, 102 km SSW of Paracas, Peru
Thursday 16th April 2026 10:09 GMT
Depth: 10 km

earthquake M 5, 138 km SE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea
Thursday 16th April 2026 07:01 GMT
Depth: 10 km

earthquake M 5.4, 229 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu
Wednesday 15th April 2026 09:59 GMT
Depth: 167 km

earthquake M 5.7, 72 km SW of Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Wednesday 15th April 2026 08:56 GMT
Depth: 20 km

earthquake M 5, 200 km W of Puerto Natales, Chile
Wednesday 15th April 2026 04:38 GMT
Depth: 37 km

earthquake M 5.7, south of Africa
Tuesday 14th April 2026 12:13 GMT
Depth: 10 km

earthquake M 5.5, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands
Tuesday 14th April 2026 05:04 GMT
Depth: 220 km

earthquake M 5.7, 20 km ESE of Silver Springs, Nevada
Tuesday 14th April 2026 03:29 GMT
Depth: 5 km

Earthquake activity today
Number of earthquakes today
The number of magnitude 5+ earthquakes today. The colors indicate normal activity (green), above normal (yellow) or way above normal (red). Normal daily average is around 5 (5+) earthquakes per day (decade 2007 - 2017).
Earthquake activity week
Number of earthquakes this week
The number of magnitude 5+ earthquakes in the past 7 days. The colors indicate normal activity (green), above normal (yellow) or way above normal (red). Normal average is 35 (5+) earthquakes per 7 days (decade 2007 - 2017).
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Long term Earthquakes trend

earthquakes today earthquakes graph of the past years There is a large spread in yearly magnitude 5+ earthquakes. In 1998 we had 1108 of those earthquakes in 2010 we had 2408 M5+ earthquakes. How many earthquakes will 2022 bring?

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NSW earthquake: gold miners fled to underground refuge chambers when 4.5
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Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:00:13 GMT

Newmont halts Cadia gold mine after earthquake
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:33:18 GMT

Map: 5.7
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:22:48 GMT

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Earthquakes Today

Earthquakes Today brings you the world's recent and latest earthquakes. Worldwide there are around 1400 earthquakes each day (500,000 each year). 275 of these can actually be felt. The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 (Mw) in Chile on May 22, 1960. The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in central China. It struck a region where most people lived in caves carved from soft rock. These dwellings collapsed during the earthquake, killing an estimated 830,000 people.
More recent catastrophic earthquakes are the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 earthquake in Japan and the 2015 Nepal earthquake..

For more information about the damage and occurrences of earthquakes, take a look at the Richter Scale Table.

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