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1,057 quakes Mag. 3+
38 quakes Mag. 5+
Number of quakes vs long-term average, past 7 days
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Earthquakes worldwide: past 30 days
| Latest See all | Mag. 5.6 earthquake 107 km south of Kokopo - East New Britain, Papua New Guinea - |
| Strongest past 30 days | Mag. 6.5 Indian Ocean - Jakarta, Indonesia - Apr 27, 2024 - |
Updated: May 10, 2024 20:38 GMT -
Quake statistics | Past 24 hours | 7 days | 14 days | Yesterday | May | Past month | 2024 | Past year | Since 1900
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In the past 30 days, there were 32,475 quakes of magnitudes up to 6.5:
- 9 quakes above magnitude 6
- 153 quakes between magnitude 5 and 6
- 1,202 quakes between magnitude 4 and 5
- 3,422 quakes between magnitude 3 and 4
- 7,595 quakes between magnitude 2 and 3
- 20,094 quakes below magnitude 2 that people normally don't feel.
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Date and Time | Mag Depth | Nearest Volcano | Location | Details | Map |
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| May 10, 09:48 pm (Port Moresby) | 5.6 37 km |  107 km south of Kokopo, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea I FELT IT - 4 reports | Info | ||
| May 10, 03:45 pm (Taipei) | 5.8 10.8 km |  38 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan I FELT IT - 17 reports | Info | ||
| Wednesday, May 8, 2024 GMT (5 quakes) | |||||
| May 8, 10:51 pm (Efate) | 5.2 10 km |  113 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu I FELT IT - 1 report | Info | ||
| May 8, 10:06 pm (Efate) | 5.4 10 km | 106 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu I FELT IT | Info | ||
| May 8, 06:00 am (Santiago) | 5.2 104 km |  20 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile I FELT IT | Info | ||
| May 8, 07:29 pm (GMT +11) | 5.3 10 km | South Pacific Ocean, 133 km east of Maewo Island, Penama, Vanuatu I FELT IT - 1 report | Info | ||
| May 8, 07:17 pm (Efate) | 6.1 13 km | 99 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu I FELT IT - 5 reports | Info | ||
| Tuesday, May 7, 2024 GMT (2 quakes) | |||||
| May 8, 06:09 am (GMT +8) | 5.2 78 km |  Indian Ocean, 92 km south of Nusa Penida Island, Bali, Indonesia I FELT IT - 1161 reports | Info | ||
| May 7, 01:34 pm (GMT -1) | 5.6 10 km |  east of the South Sandwich Islands I FELT IT | Info | ||
| Monday, May 6, 2024 GMT (3 quakes) | |||||
| May 6, 11:11 pm (Anadyr) | 5.3 10 km |  198 km NNE of Egvekinot, Russia I FELT IT | Info | ||
| May 6, 05:52 pm (Taipei) | 5.4 29 km | 27 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan I FELT IT - 8 reports | Info | ||
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Estimated combined seismic energy released: 2.5 x 1015 joules (698 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 6 x 105 tons of TNT or 37.5 atomic bombs!) | about seismic energy
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Average number of earthquakes
Based on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 360,000 quakes on average per year worldwide:
- Mag. 8 or higher: 0.76 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.3 years)
- Mag. 7 or higher: 12.5 quakes per year
- Mag. 6 or higher: 117 quakes per year (or 9.8 quakes per month)
- Mag. 5 or higher: 2,000 quakes per year (or 5.5 quakes per day)
- Mag. 4 or higher: 17,000 quakes per year (or 48 quakes per day)
- Mag. 3 or higher: 58,000 quakes per year (or 159 quakes per day)
- Mag. 2 or higher: 150,000 quakes per year (or 409 quakes per day)
- Mag. 1 or higher: 290,000 quakes per year (or 791 quakes per day)
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