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 255 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 very low compared to an average day.
July 10th, 2026: So far, a total of 201 earthquakes have been detected today. Yesterday the world registered 280 earthquakes. For these calculations we use the UTC timezone, and this section is updated every hour with today's earthquake statistics (last calculated on July 10th 19:59 UTC).
Strongest Earthquakes Today
The strongest earthquake today occurred on Jul 10, 2026 09:37 local time (Pacific/Fiji timezone). It had a magnitude of 5.0 and struck 386 kilometers (240 mi) from Labasa (in the South 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 10th, 2026 201 earthquakes |
1m56s | 11m8s | 82.1% | 89.1% |
| July 9th, 2026 280 earthquakes |
1m58s | 12m29s | 72.9% | 78.6% |
| July 8th, 2026 315 earthquakes |
1m21s | 12m15s | 73.3% | 80.6% |
| July 7th, 2026 314 earthquakes |
2m11s | 11m0s | 73.2% | 79% |
| July 6th, 2026 298 earthquakes |
1m26s | 10m5s | 80.9% | 84.2% |
