Earthquakes in Russia, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 3,996 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Russia. One stands far above the rest: a magnitude 8.8 on July 29, 2025 (2025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake). The next strongest reached 7.8.
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 62 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.8 on October 23 (6 km ENE of Starobachaty, Russia). The strongest: magnitude 6.9 on October 16 (76 km NE of Ozernovskiy, Russia).
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 4.3 on July 5, 2022 (Kemerovo), for which NOAA records 2 deaths. 10 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 3 in all. 2025 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 1,914 of the 3,996. 552 came in the 30 days after the strongest, within 150 km of it. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.8 on September 18, 2025 (140 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia). NOAA lists 11 tsunamis that began in or off Russia. The highest water NOAA records here was 90 m, on December 11, 2018. NOAA lists 2 significant eruptions of 2 volcanoes in or off Russia. The largest was Sheveluch on August 17, 2024, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index.
The events
- September 18, 2025Earthquake · M 7.8140 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, RussiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- July 29, 2025Earthquake · M 8.82025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- July 20, 2025Earthquake · M 7.42025 Eastern Kamchatka, Russia EarthquakeUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- August 17, 2024Eruption · VEI 4SheveluchNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- July 5, 2022Earthquake · M 4.3Kemerovo · 2 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- March 25, 2020Earthquake · M 7.5221 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, RussiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- December 11, 2018Tsunami · 90 m hereBureya, Far Eastern RussiaNOAA NCEI
- July 17, 2017Earthquake · M 7.7Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia regionUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
Good to know
- An event counts for Russia 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 Russia 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 Russia, 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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