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 302 earthquakes around the world. Of those, 30 earthquakes had a magnitude of 4.0 or higher. The earthquake activity of the past 24 hours can be considered very low compared to an average day.
April 11th, 2026: So far, a total of 146 earthquakes have been detected today. Yesterday the world registered 372 earthquakes. For these calculations we use the UTC timezone, and this section is updated every hour with today's earthquake statistics (last calculated on April 11th 13:29 UTC).
Strongest Earthquakes Today
The strongest earthquake today occurred on Apr 11, 2026 18:49 local time (Asia/Tokyo timezone). It had a magnitude of 5.4 and struck 213 kilometers (132 mi) from Kushiro (in the North Pacific Ocean), at a depth of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 11th, 2026 146 earthquakes |
2m33s | 10m14s | 84.9% | 97.9% |
| April 10th, 2026 372 earthquakes |
1m45s | 12m16s | 75% | 82.3% |
| April 9th, 2026 381 earthquakes |
1m44s | 425m24s | 20.2% | 25.7% |
| April 8th, 2026 393 earthquakes |
2m10s | 12m7s | 77.1% | 83% |
| April 7th, 2026 389 earthquakes |
2m27s | 12m11s | 76.6% | 83.3% |
