Earthquakes in Netherlands, 2017–2026
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in Netherlands from 2017 to October 19, 2026. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 3 in Netherlands in these years.
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 9 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 5.1 on October 20 (39 km W of Mosteiros, Portugal).
What the record holds
The strongest was a magnitude 3.4 on January 8, 2018 (Groningen). NOAA records no deaths for any of them. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 3.2 on November 14, 2025 (Groningen). NOAA lists one tsunami that began in Netherlands. The highest water NOAA records here was 2 m, on May 29, 2017.
The events
Good to know
- An event counts for Netherlands when it began inside its borders. Damage can reach across them.
- 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 Netherlands, 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history