🌍Global
Series · Climate & Perils
Earthquakes
Every significant earthquake on Earth, mapped and narrated from the data up, read as experienced risk rather than forecast.
76 episodes
- Source
- USGS ComCat
- Catalogue
- 1,021,324 events
- Peril type
- Geophysical (tectonic)
- Updated
- Jun 2026
Last 12 months & catalogue context · experienced risk
Events · last 12 months
8,323
M4.5+ · to Jun 2026
Largest · last 12 months
M8.8
Kamchatka, Russia · Jul 2025
Catalogued events
1,021,324
M2.5+ · 1970–2026
Deadliest on record
242,769
Tangshan, 1976
M6.0+ per year
140
long-run average
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