This is the complete overview of all the lastest earthquakes occurring around the world today. Earthquakes happening now will usually appear within minutes.
Earthquakes Today in Numbers
Past 24 hours: During the past 24 hours, we have recorded 252 earthquakes around the world. Of those, 32 earthquakes had a magnitude of 4.0 or higher. The earthquake activity of the past 24 hours can be considered low compared to an average day.
May 8th, 2024: So far, a total of 149 earthquakes have been detected today. Yesterday the world registered 267 earthquakes. For these calculations we use the UTC timezone, and this section is updated every hour with today's earthquake statistics (last calculated on May 8th 15:59 UTC).
Strongest Earthquakes Today
The strongest earthquake today occurred on May 8, 2024 19:17 local time (Pacific/Efate timezone). It had a magnitude of 6.1 and struck 291 kilometers (181 mi) from Port-Vila (in the Coral Sea), at a depth of 13 km.
Today's strongest earthquakes (in the past 24 hours) are listed in the table below. You can click on any earthquake to find out more details.
Visitor Spikes (past 24 hours)
When an earthquake hits, many people start searching for information immediately. This leads to increased visitors looking for information about earthquakes in affected regions. By detecting these visits we are often able to predict that an earthquake occurred before any official data is available.
Visitor spikes of the past 24 hours are listed below. They may indicate that an earthquake occurred in the region today, but can also be caused by other reasons, like a link to our site being shared with a large audience.
Reporting Speed of Recent Earthquakes
Earthquakelist.org aims to let you know about recent earthquakes as soon as possible, ideally within minutes after they happen. We continuously work to increase our reporting speed by aggregating data from multiple natural disaster agencies every minute. Read more on our data gathering methods.
We try to be upfront about our reporting speed to give you an indication how quickly information about an earthquake you just felt might appear on our website. Our reporting speed performance of the past couple of days is displayed below.
| Date | Fastest Reporting Time | Median Reporting Time | Within 30 minutes | Within 1 hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8th, 2024 149 earthquakes |
1m57s | 14m35s | 69.8% | 83.2% |
| May 7th, 2024 267 earthquakes |
1m44s | 14m34s | 67.4% | 78.7% |
| May 6th, 2024 235 earthquakes |
1m58s | 13m8s | 70.6% | 76.6% |
| May 5th, 2024 293 earthquakes |
1m49s | 14m9s | 74.7% | 78.5% |
| May 4th, 2024 232 earthquakes |
2m0s | 13m22s | 72.0% | 78.0% |
