Earthquakes near Catania, 2017–2026

2 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records no deaths for any of them. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.5 on March 4, 2026 (4 km ESE of Catania, Italy). NOAA lists 2 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Catania. The largest was Etna on December 26, 2018, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index.

• March 4, 2026Earthquake · M 4.54 km ESE of Catania, ItalyUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• April 16, 2025Earthquake · M 4.734 km SSE of Palizzi Marina, ItalyUSGS
• December 26, 2018Earthquake · M 5.01 km SSW of Lavinaio-Monterosso, ItalyUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• December 26, 2018Eruption · VEI 2EtnaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Catania when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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