Earthquakes M4.5+ within 100 km: ranking of world cities

Order: highest value first. Lower is better.

Earthquakes M4.5+ within 100 km: ranking of world cities: Tokyo ranks first (23.55 per year) and Warsaw last (0.00 per year). The median across 81 world cities is 0.00 per year. Observation period: 2006-2025. Source: USGS, ComCat earthquake catalog.

Average number of magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes per year within 100 km of the center over the period. This is a record of past tremors, not a hazard forecast.

Data quality: 20-year catalog: rare strong events may fall outside the window; completeness outside the US depends on the region.

#CityValue
1Tokyo23.55 per year
2Taipei9.90 per year
3Chengdu9.30 per year
4Manila8.00 per year
5Santiago5.00 per year
6Jakarta2.65 per year
7Lima2.25 per year
8Athens2.10 per year
9Johannesburg1.40 per year
10Osaka1.15 per year
11Rome0.85 per year
12Bogotá0.75 per year
13Istanbul0.75 per year
14Almaty0.55 per year
15Baku0.40 per year
16Tbilisi0.40 per year
17Dhaka0.35 per year
18Delhi0.30 per year
19Tashkent0.25 per year
20Karachi0.20 per year
21Tehran0.15 per year
22Tel Aviv0.15 per year
23Beijing0.10 per year
24Dubai0.10 per year
25Lisbon0.10 per year
26Yerevan0.10 per year
27Belgrade0.05 per year
28London0.05 per year
29Nairobi0.05 per year
30Accra0.00 per year
31Addis Ababa0.00 per year
32Amsterdam0.00 per year
33Baghdad0.00 per year
34Bangkok0.00 per year
35Barcelona0.00 per year
36Bengaluru0.00 per year
37Berlin0.00 per year
38Bucharest0.00 per year
39Budapest0.00 per year
40Buenos Aires0.00 per year
41Cairo0.00 per year
42Cape Town0.00 per year
43Casablanca0.00 per year
44Copenhagen0.00 per year
45Doha0.00 per year
46Dublin0.00 per year
47Guangzhou0.00 per year
48Hanoi0.00 per year
49Helsinki0.00 per year
50Ho Chi Minh City0.00 per year
51Hong Kong0.00 per year
52Kharkiv0.00 per year
53Kinshasa0.00 per year
54Kuala Lumpur0.00 per year
55Kyiv0.00 per year
56Lagos0.00 per year
57Madrid0.00 per year
58Melbourne0.00 per year
59Mexico City0.00 per year
60Minsk0.00 per year
61Moscow0.00 per year
62Mumbai0.00 per year
63Oslo0.00 per year
64Paris0.00 per year
65Prague0.00 per year
66Riga0.00 per year
67Rio de Janeiro0.00 per year
68Riyadh0.00 per year
69Saint Petersburg0.00 per year
70São Paulo0.00 per year
71Seoul0.00 per year
72Shanghai0.00 per year
73Shenzhen0.00 per year
74Singapore0.00 per year
75Stockholm0.00 per year
76Sydney0.00 per year
77Tallinn0.00 per year
78Toronto0.00 per year
79Vienna0.00 per year
80Vilnius0.00 per year
81Warsaw0.00 per year

Only places with a value for the indicator are ranked; a gap is not a zero. A ranking on one indicator is not an assessment of a place to live.

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