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Total: 00 earthquakes today

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M6.1, 56 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu,Sunday 16th August 2026 05:20 GMT
Latest M 5+ earthquakes
earthquake M 6.1, 56 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu
Sunday 16th August 2026 05:20 GMT
Depth: 188 km

earthquake M 5, 80 km N of Ruteng, Indonesia
Sunday 16th August 2026 01:12 GMT
Depth: 10 km

earthquake M 5.4, 19 km NE of Colonia, Micronesia
Sunday 16th August 2026 00:52 GMT
Depth: 10 km

earthquake M 5.5, Volcano Islands, Japan region
Saturday 15th August 2026 21:32 GMT
Depth: 40 km

earthquake M 5.7, 125 km NNE of Palu, Indonesia
Saturday 15th August 2026 18:25 GMT
Depth: 72 km

earthquake M 5.2, 78 km NW of Ende, Indonesia
Saturday 15th August 2026 14:14 GMT
Depth: 10 km

earthquake M 5.4, 41 km SSW of Angoram, Papua New Guinea
Saturday 15th August 2026 13:10 GMT
Depth: 120 km

earthquake M 6.9, 15 km NNW of Pematangsiantar, Indonesia
Saturday 15th August 2026 12:54 GMT
Depth: 173 km

earthquake M 5.1, 39 km NNW of Ruteng, Indonesia
Saturday 15th August 2026 12:31 GMT
Depth: 10 km

earthquake M 5.1, 71 km NNE of Ruteng, Indonesia
Saturday 15th August 2026 09:39 GMT
Depth: 10 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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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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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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