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

Order: lowest value first. Lower is better.

Earthquakes M4.5+ within 100 km: ranking of world cities: Accra ranks first (0.00 per year) and Tokyo last (23.55 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
1Accra0.00 per year
2Addis Ababa0.00 per year
3Amsterdam0.00 per year
4Baghdad0.00 per year
5Bangkok0.00 per year
6Barcelona0.00 per year
7Bengaluru0.00 per year
8Berlin0.00 per year
9Bucharest0.00 per year
10Budapest0.00 per year
11Buenos Aires0.00 per year
12Cairo0.00 per year
13Cape Town0.00 per year
14Casablanca0.00 per year
15Copenhagen0.00 per year
16Doha0.00 per year
17Dublin0.00 per year
18Guangzhou0.00 per year
19Hanoi0.00 per year
20Helsinki0.00 per year
21Ho Chi Minh City0.00 per year
22Hong Kong0.00 per year
23Kharkiv0.00 per year
24Kinshasa0.00 per year
25Kuala Lumpur0.00 per year
26Kyiv0.00 per year
27Lagos0.00 per year
28Madrid0.00 per year
29Melbourne0.00 per year
30Mexico City0.00 per year
31Minsk0.00 per year
32Moscow0.00 per year
33Mumbai0.00 per year
34Oslo0.00 per year
35Paris0.00 per year
36Prague0.00 per year
37Riga0.00 per year
38Rio de Janeiro0.00 per year
39Riyadh0.00 per year
40Saint Petersburg0.00 per year
41São Paulo0.00 per year
42Seoul0.00 per year
43Shanghai0.00 per year
44Shenzhen0.00 per year
45Singapore0.00 per year
46Stockholm0.00 per year
47Sydney0.00 per year
48Tallinn0.00 per year
49Toronto0.00 per year
50Vienna0.00 per year
51Vilnius0.00 per year
52Warsaw0.00 per year
53Belgrade0.05 per year
54London0.05 per year
55Nairobi0.05 per year
56Beijing0.10 per year
57Dubai0.10 per year
58Lisbon0.10 per year
59Yerevan0.10 per year
60Tehran0.15 per year
61Tel Aviv0.15 per year
62Karachi0.20 per year
63Tashkent0.25 per year
64Delhi0.30 per year
65Dhaka0.35 per year
66Baku0.40 per year
67Tbilisi0.40 per year
68Almaty0.55 per year
69Bogotá0.75 per year
70Istanbul0.75 per year
71Rome0.85 per year
72Osaka1.15 per year
73Johannesburg1.40 per year
74Athens2.10 per year
75Lima2.25 per year
76Jakarta2.65 per year
77Santiago5.00 per year
78Manila8.00 per year
79Chengdu9.30 per year
80Taipei9.90 per year
81Tokyo23.55 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.

Compare Accra and Addis Ababa