I’ve had an interest in earthquakes from a young age and have always found it fascinating that something happening deep beneath the Earth’s surface can cause such a huge amount of movement and energy at the surface. Over time, my interest grew into wanting to understand more about how earthquakes happen, how they’re measured, and why certain parts of the world experience so much more activity than others.
I created Earthquake Trackers as a way to explore that interest and make it easier for people to see what is happening around the world in real time. The site brings together earthquake information from several seismic monitoring agencies and puts it into one place, so you can quickly see where earthquakes are happening, how strong they are, how deep they occurred, and how activity changes over time.
Whether you’re interested in earthquakes as I am, keeping an eye on activity in a particular part of the world, or simply curious about what is happening beneath the Earth’s surface, I hope Earthquake Trackers makes that information interesting and easy to explore.
Earthquake Trackers brings together live earthquake data from these seismic monitoring agencies. Where more than one agency has recorded the same earthquake, the readings are combined into a single entry and the figures shown are from the agency with the most detailed data for that region.
The map background uses satellite imagery from Esri World Imagery. News links on earthquake pages open searches on Google News, Reuters, AP, BBC and CNN and lead to those publishers, not to Earthquake Trackers.
Data source: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, GeoNet (GNS Science), BMKG, British Geological Survey (BGS). Enable JavaScript for the live interactive map.