Earthquakes in Poland, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 17 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Poland. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5 on July 8, 2020 (6 km N of Rudna, Poland).
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.
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 2.8 on April 23, 2022 (Silesian: Jastrzebie-Zdroj), for which NOAA records 10 deaths. 6 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 21 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 2.9 on July 11, 2024 (Rybnik).
The events
- July 11, 2026Earthquake · M 4.92 km W of Polkowice, PolandUSGS
- July 11, 2024Earthquake · M 2.9Rybnik · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- April 23, 2022Earthquake · M 2.8Silesian: Jastrzebie-Zdroj · 10 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- July 8, 2020Earthquake · M 5.06 km N of Rudna, PolandUSGS
- July 1, 2019Earthquake · M 3.1Katowice · 3 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- January 29, 2019Earthquake · M 4.9USGS
- September 15, 2018Earthquake · M 4.7USGS
- July 20, 2018Earthquake · M 4.9USGS
- May 5, 2018Earthquake · M 4.1Silesian: Jastrzebie-Zdroj · 5 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Poland 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 Poland 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 Poland, 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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