Significant Earthquakes in Australia
Every significant earthquake NOAA records in Australia, with its toll.
Map
Every significant earthquake in Australia with a location. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The record
- Earthquakes
- 34
- Deaths counted
- 12
- Earliest
- 1859
The deadliest
Every earthquake
Newest first.
- September 21, 2021, Melbourne, Australia
- February 26, 2014, Kalgoorlie, Australia
- April 20, 2010, Kalgoorlie, Australia
- September 22, 2009, Mornington, Australia
- December 23, 2004, Macquarie Island, Australia
- June 18, 2000, S, Cocos Islands, Australia
- August 6, 1994, New South Wales, Australia
- December 27, 1989, Newcastle, Australia
- May 23, 1989, Macquarie Station, New Zealand, Macquarie Island, Australia
- January 22, 1988, Tennant Creek, Australia
- January 22, 1988, Tennant Creek, Australia
- September 3, 1987, Macquarie Island, Australia
- June 2, 1979, Western, Australia
- March 9, 1973, Wollongong, Sydney, Australia
- June 11, 1970, Macquarie Island, Australia
- October 14, 1968, Meckering, Northam, Cunderdin, York, Australia
- May 21, 1961, New South Wales, Australia
- February 28, 1954, S, Adelaide, Australia
- September 6, 1943, Macquarie Island, Australia
- October 3, 1926, North of, Macquarie Island, Australia
- July 24, 1924, North of, Macquarie Island, Australia
- June 26, 1924, Macquarie Island, Australia
- April 12, 1910, NE of Darwin, Australia
- January 31, 1907, Tasmania, Australia
- November 19, 1906, West Coast, Australia
- April 19, 1906, SE of Tasmania, Australia
- April 6, 1903, Warrnambool, Australia
- September 19, 1902, Warooka, Australia
- January 29, 1899, Point Charles, Darwin, Australia
- May 10, 1897, Beachport,robe,kingston,mount Gambier, Australia
- January 5, 1885, Geraldton, Australia
- August 5, 1875, Melbourne, Australia
- June 18, 1868, Maitland, Australia
- November 22, 1859, Circular Head, Tasmania, Australia
By country
- Afghanistan72
- Albania56
- Algeria58
- Antarctica7
- Antigua and Barbuda3
- Argentina39
- Armenia13
- Atlantic Ocean7
- Australia34
- Austria8
- Azerbaijan17
- Azores28
- Bangladesh19
- Barbados1
- Belgium1
- Bering Sea1
- Bhutan5
- Bolivia19
- Bosnia and Herzegovina11
- Brazil13
- British Virgin Islands1
- Bulgaria18
- Burundi1
- Cameroon2
- Canada22
- Canary Islands2
- Central African Republic1
- Chile200
- China626
- Colombia83
- Comoros1
- Congo7
- Costa Rica37
- Cote d'Ivoire2
- Croatia53
- Cuba15
- Cyprus10
- Czech Republic1
- Djibouti2
- Dominica1
- Dominican Republic19
- Ecuador70
- Egypt17
- El Salvador42
- Eritrea6
- Ethiopia11
- Fiji20
- France43
- French Guiana2
- French Polynesia1
- Gabon1
- Georgia15
- Germany9
- Ghana6
- Greece296
- Greenland1
- Grenada1
- Guadeloupe9
- Guatemala47
- Guinea1
- Haiti21
- Honduras15
- Hungary5
- Iceland17
- India102
- Indian Ocean3
- Indonesia427
- Iran388
- Iraq24
- Ireland1
- Israel24
- Italy338
- Jamaica19
- Japan429
- Jordan5
- Kazakhstan9
- Kenya3
- Kermadec Islands23
- Kiribati1
- Kyrgyzstan15
- Laos2
- Lebanon14
- Libya2
- Madagascar1
- Malawi4
- Malaysia3
- Martinique10
- Mexico217
- Micronesia5
- Mongolia7
- Montenegro10
- Montserrat1
- Morocco21
- Mozambique3
- Myanmar43
- Nepal21
- Netherlands4
- New Caledonia28
- New Zealand72
- Nicaragua40
- North Korea6
- North Macedonia13
- Norway2
- Oman2
- Pacific Ocean2
- Pakistan55
- Palau1
- Panama23
- Papua New Guinea107
- Peru195
- Philippines233
- Poland8
- Portugal29
- Romania15
- Russia159
- Rwanda5
- Saint Lucia2
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1
- Samoa8
- Saudi Arabia3
- Senegal1
- Serbia15
- Sierra Leone1
- Slovakia3
- Slovenia22
- Solomon Islands63
- Solomon Sea2
- South Africa14
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands7
- South Korea22
- South Sudan4
- Spain35
- Sri Lanka1
- Sudan1
- Switzerland31
- Syria34
- Taiwan103
- Tajikistan29
- Tanzania8
- Tasman Sea1
- Thailand4
- Togo2
- Tonga26
- Trinidad and Tobago8
- Tunisia9
- Turkey360
- Turkmenistan12
- Uganda4
- UK Territories2
- Ukraine12
- United Kingdom15
- United States283
- Uruguay2
- US Territories39
- Uzbekistan14
- Vanuatu65
- Venezuela65
- Vietnam6
- Wallis and Futuna1
- Yemen10
- Zambia1
Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24.