Earthquakes Near Me
Recent recorded earthquakes around your location, with magnitude, depth and distance
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Earthquake data from the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program. USGS does not endorse WhatIsMyLocation. This page is for information only and is not an official alert service.
Recent earthquakes, newest first
Reading an earthquake listing
Every entry above is one recorded event in the USGS global catalogue. Three numbers do most of the work: how big it was, how deep it started, and how far it was from you.
| Magnitude | What it feels like | Roughly how often, worldwide |
|---|---|---|
| Below 2.5 | almost never felt, recorded by instruments | millions a year |
| 2.5 to 5.4 | often felt nearby, minor damage at the top of the range | hundreds of thousands a year |
| 5.5 to 6.0 | slight damage to buildings and structures | around 500 a year |
| 6.1 to 6.9 | damage in populated areas | around 100 a year |
| 7.0 and above | serious to catastrophic damage over a wide area | around 15 a year |
Why depth changes everything
A magnitude 5 that starts 10 km down can shake a town hard. The same magnitude 5 starting 300 km down may barely register at the surface, because the energy spreads through far more rock before it arrives. That is why the listings above show depth in both kilometres and miles rather than hiding it.
Distance is measured to the epicentre
The distance shown is the great-circle distance from the location we resolved for you to the epicentre, which is the point on the surface directly above where the rupture began. Because your location here comes from your IP address, it is accurate to the city rather than the street, so treat distances under about 20 km as approximate.
Related tools: check your elevation above sea level, get precise GPS coordinates, or see where you are on a map.
Earthquake questions people actually ask
Was there an earthquake near me just now?+
The list on this page is the current USGS catalogue for the area around your resolved location, newest first. If the newest entry is minutes old, that is the shake you felt. If the list is empty, nothing above your chosen magnitude has been recorded in that radius during the time window.
Why does nothing show up for my area?+
Most of the world is seismically quiet for weeks at a time. Widen the radius, lengthen the time window, or drop the minimum magnitude to All. Detection coverage also varies: small events are catalogued densely in California, Alaska and Japan and more sparsely elsewhere.
How quickly do earthquakes appear here?+
USGS publish automatic solutions within a few minutes of an event, then revise them as analysts review the data. We refresh from USGS every few minutes, so a new event normally shows up here within about five minutes of USGS posting it. Entries marked automatic have not been reviewed by a person yet.
What does the depth number mean?+
Depth is how far below the surface the rupture started. Shallow earthquakes, roughly the top 70 km, are felt much more strongly at the surface than deep ones of the same magnitude, because less rock absorbs the energy on the way up.
What magnitude can people actually feel?+
Around magnitude 2.5 is the rough threshold for being noticed by people close to the epicentre. Magnitude 4.5 rattles windows over a wide area. The scale is logarithmic, so each whole step is about 32 times more energy released.
Is this an official earthquake warning service?+
No. This page displays the public USGS catalogue for information only. For alerts, official guidance and shaking intensity maps, go to the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and your national emergency service.
Data source and credits
Earthquake events on this page come from the USGS FDSN event web service, part of the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program. USGS is credited as the source of the data. USGS has not reviewed this page, does not endorse WhatIsMyLocation, and is not responsible for how the data is presented here. For official alerts, shaking intensity maps and guidance, use the USGS site directly.
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