Earthquakes by country

Live earthquake maps for 123 countries and all 50 US states. Counts are M4.0+ earthquakes recorded by USGS inside each country’s map area in 2016-2025.

Ten-year ranking

Most active countries

  1. 1Indonesia20,238
  2. 2Russia12,671
  3. 3Japan11,269
  4. 4China9,504
  5. 5Brazil8,989
  6. 6Papua New Guinea7,655
  7. 7Chile7,503
  8. 8Argentina6,085
  9. 9Philippines4,753
  10. 10India3,254

Counts use a rectangle around each country, so large countries and neighbours of very active zones rank higher (Brazil’s and Argentina’s include deep Andean earthquakes).

United States

All 50 states, with M2+ detail

US regional networks record much smaller earthquakes than the global catalog, so state and city pages go down to magnitude 2.

  1. 1Alaska52,090
  2. 2Hawaii17,144
  3. 3California14,201
  4. 4Nevada7,976
  5. 5Texas7,202
  6. 6Oklahoma4,239

M2.5+ earthquakes in each state’s map area, 2016-2025.

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America