How many earthquakes in 2026?
As of 2 November 2026, Global Incident Tracker has recorded 30,250 earthquakes in 2026, 139 of them of magnitude 6 or more; the most were in United States (4,264).
Earthquakes come from official and scientific feeds (USGS, EMSC, BMKG, GeoNet, INGV, GDACS), so large events are well covered; small ones are recorded far more completely in countries with dense monitoring.
2026Month by month
| Month | Recorded | Severe or extreme | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2,378 | 27 | |
| February | 2,131 | 21 | |
| March | 2,520 | 22 | |
| April | 2,630 | 15 | |
| May | 2,237 | 10 | |
| June | 2,506 | 22 | |
| July | 2,698 | 24 | |
| August | 2,976 | 58 | |
| September | 3,997 | 39 | |
| October | 5,885 | 73 | |
| November | 292 so far | 4 | |
| December | — | — | |
| Total | 30,250 | 315 |
By magnitude, from the seismic networks' own figures: 1,792 of magnitude 5 or more, 139 of 6 or more and 20 of 7 or more.
Severity, then number of reportsThe 10 most severe earthquakes of 2026
Ranked by this site's severity signal, then by how many separate reports reached us. Neither is a death toll. Earthquakes are ranked by magnitude.
2026Countries with the most earthquakes
| # | Country | Recorded | Severe or extreme |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 4,264 | 64 |
| 2 | Indonesia | 2,894 | 50 |
| 3 | Mexico | 2,144 | 8 |
| 4 | Philippines | 1,383 | 13 |
| 5 | Japan | 1,314 | 15 |
| 6 | Chile | 1,169 | 1 |
| 7 | Panama | 1,156 | 8 |
| 8 | Russia | 816 | 3 |
| 9 | Dominican Republic | 745 | 1 |
| 10 | Tonga | 739 | 2 |
| 11 | Argentina | 577 | 0 |
| 12 | Fiji | 574 | 1 |
| 13 | New Zealand | 547 | 9 |
| 14 | China | 465 | 14 |
| 15 | Papua New Guinea | 461 | 5 |
Recorded in 142 countries. Events at sea or without a location are not in this table.
QuestionsAbout this count
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How to cite this
Suggested citation:
Global Incident Tracker (2026). Earthquakes recorded in 2026. Data as of 2 November 2026. https://globalincidenttracker.com/2026/earthquakes (CC BY 4.0)
Quote it as: “As of 2 November 2026, Global Incident Tracker has recorded 30,250 earthquakes in 2026, 139 of them of magnitude 6 or more; the most were in United States (4,264).” — link the words Global Incident Tracker to https://globalincidenttracker.com/2026/earthquakes.
Data & methodology
- Licence: CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse, including commercially, with credit and a link. Upstream sources keep their own terms (listed here).
- What is counted: records of events by the date they happened (UTC), after duplicate reports were merged. Official warnings are counted separately, never as events. How records are sourced and checked.
- What is missing: types with no official feed exist here only because news reported them, so their counts are a floor, not a total. Coverage by type.
- Not a death toll: severity is this site’s monitoring signal, not an official damage or casualty assessment.
- Download: this page as CSV · every record as CSV or JSON.
Counts compiled by Global Incident Tracker and published under CC BY 4.0. Upstream records keep their own terms: USGS, NOAA and NASA data are US public domain; GDACS is free to reuse with attribution; headlines belong to their publishers. Every record of this type, warnings included: full CSV.