6.0 AND GREATER EARTHQUAKES ARE REPORTED ON THIS SITE AND ALL EARTHQUAKE STATS PERTAIN TO 6.0 AND GREATER MAGNITUDE QUAKES.

Map: USGS

A 6.2 major earthquake hit Auckland Islands, New Zealand region, on September 20, 2017, at 01:43:29 UTC, at a depth of 13 km, reported Geoscience Australia (not finalized).

833 major (6.0+) to super (8.0+) earthquakes hit various places worldwide over the last 1,672 days. Among these were 93  7.0+ and 10  8.0+ magnitude quakes. (Sources: EMSC-CSEM; Geoscience Australia; USGS; National Weather Service; Pacific Tsunami Warning Center; China Earthquake Networks Center; GEOFON; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO] of Columbia University.)

Major to super magnitude earthquakes occur every other day on average during the last 55 months.