Recent earthquakes and seismic activity
A free, live earthquake map that shows the quakes recorded around the world over the past day. Each event is plotted where it happened, sized by magnitude and colored by depth, and a quake that arrives while you watch pulses on the map. Tap any circle for its magnitude, depth, location and how long ago it struck. Data is merged from the USGS and EMSC seismic networks and refreshes every minute.
How to use the earthquake map
Each circle is one earthquake from the past day. Bigger circles are stronger quakes; warm colors are shallow, cool colors are deep.
Click any circle for its magnitude, depth, location and how long ago it happened, plus a link to the official USGS or EMSC page.
Use the magnitude filter to show only stronger quakes, or jump straight to the biggest or most recent event with one tap.
Press “Near me” to center the map on your location and see recent activity around you.
See where the earth is shaking right now
Tell me if something happens near a place I care about
Pick a place, a radius and a magnitude — we will email you when a quake is recorded inside that circle.
This is a report of something that has already happened, not an early warning: seismic waves travel faster than email, so anyone at the epicentre learns about the quake from the quake. It is useful for a place where your family lives, for aftershocks, and above all for tsunami warnings — those really do come with tens of minutes of lead time.
Source: USGS (public domain) and EMSC. An informational map, not an early-warning or emergency service. Map © OpenStreetMap & OpenFreeMap.
Where the dots come from — and what they are not
The map draws events from two public seismic catalogs. Knowing their limits matters more than the map itself: a missing dot does not mean the ground stayed still.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Catalogs | USGS (global) and EMSC seismicportal, which covers Europe and Russia more densely inland |
| Magnitude floor | M2.5 — weaker tremors never enter the feed |
| Refresh | Once a minute; if the catalogs are unreachable, the last successful snapshot is shown, up to 30 minutes old |
| How many events | Up to 500 most recent, newest first |
| Duplicates | The same quake reported by both catalogs collapses into one dot (0.1° and 5 minutes apart), USGS taking priority |
What this feed is not
- It is a log of what has already happened, not a warning or a forecast: a dot appears only after the shaking has been recorded.
- In the first minutes magnitude and depth are computed automatically and are later revised by seismologists — the numbers can change.
- An empty area does not prove quiet ground: anything below M2.5 is absent, and away from dense station networks the practical floor is higher still.
