Countries With the Most Strong Earthquakes in 2025
Key Findings
🏆
Russia leads in Earthquakes of Magnitude 5.5+ with 110 in 2025.
📊
Average Earthquakes of Magnitude 5.5+ in 2025: 18.42 · median: 11.
↔️
Gap in 2025: Russia is 22× larger than Taiwan.
About This Dataset
Countries With the Most Strong Earthquakes in 2025
What this chart shows. The 19 countries and territories with at least 5 earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 or greater in 2025, from the USGS catalogue. Russia led with 110, followed by Japan with 39 and Indonesia with 36. The world had 513 earthquakes of this size, and 145 of magnitude 6 or more.
How the data is collected. Each earthquake in the USGS catalogue is assigned to the country of the nearest named place given in its description. Magnitudes are the preferred values chosen by USGS, usually moment magnitude for larger events, which measures the energy released by the fault rupture.
Background. On the magnitude scale each whole step means about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 releases roughly 32 times the energy of a 4.5. Japan and Indonesia had 39 and 36; Afghanistan, with 6, is the only country in the chart without a coastline.
Limits. Countries with 4 such earthquakes, among them Ethiopia, New Zealand and Panama, are left out. 110 of the 513 strong earthquakes lay in open-ocean or disputed areas and are not counted for any country.
How the data is collected. Each earthquake in the USGS catalogue is assigned to the country of the nearest named place given in its description. Magnitudes are the preferred values chosen by USGS, usually moment magnitude for larger events, which measures the energy released by the fault rupture.
Background. On the magnitude scale each whole step means about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 releases roughly 32 times the energy of a 4.5. Japan and Indonesia had 39 and 36; Afghanistan, with 6, is the only country in the chart without a coastline.
Limits. Countries with 4 such earthquakes, among them Ethiopia, New Zealand and Panama, are left out. 110 of the 513 strong earthquakes lay in open-ocean or disputed areas and are not counted for any country.
Analysis
Russia had 110 earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 or more in 2025, 21.4 per cent of the world's total, including 4 of magnitude 7 or more. The United States had 21.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- US Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Catalog
- Coverage
- 19 entities · 2025 · 19 observations
- Measure
- Earthquakes of Magnitude 5.5+
- Last updated
- 29 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
An article using this data
Which Country Had the Most Earthquakes in 2025? Russia, With 1,871
USGS data for 2025: Russia had 1,871 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5+, mostly Kamchatka aftershocks, ahead of Indonesia and Japan. Alaska had 6,629 of 9,381 US qua...
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
Was this chart useful?
⚑ Spotted an error in this data? Report it
How these countries rank across all our charts
Each country's page lists its position in every ranking on ANYSTAT.
Cite this chart
Using this chart in an article, report, class or website? Please cite it and link to this page.
Related Charts
More statistics on similar topics