Norway

Earthquakes in Norway, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 126 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Norway. The strongest was a magnitude 6.7 on November 9, 2018 (120 km NW of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen).

The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.

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The events

  • March 10, 2025Earthquake · M 6.534 km NE of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan MayenUSGS
  • July 18, 2022Earthquake · M 5.9215 km W of Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan MayenUSGS
  • February 14, 2022Earthquake · M 5.7209 km W of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan MayenUSGS
  • November 9, 2018Earthquake · M 6.7120 km NW of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan MayenUSGS
  • February 8, 2018Earthquake · M 5.7Greenland SeaUSGS

Good to know

  • An event counts for Norway when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Norway is the nearest country.
  • 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.
  • The map frames the box around Norway, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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