Russia Earthquake Today — Live Map & Recent Quakes

Track Russia earthquake today in real time with live map data and latest tremors updated every 60s from USGS. Russia's far east, particularly the Kamchatka Peninsula, sees frequent seismic activity.

Quakes Today

2

Past 7 Days

2

Strongest (7d)

M4.7

M5+ Events

0

Live Russia Earthquake Map

Earthquakes in Russia

2 events · Past 7 Days

  • M4.7

    107 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia

    57 km deep

    ·

    4h ago

  • M4.2

    3 km NNE of Gostagayevskaya, Russia

    10 km deep

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    19h ago

Seismic Hazard Profile

About Earthquake Activity in Russia

While most of the vast Russian landmass is stable continental shield, Russia's Far East — specifically the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, and Sakhalin Island — ranks among the world's most hyper-active seismic and volcanic zones, generating some of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded.

Why does Russia experience earthquakes?

Seismicity in eastern Russia is dominated by the subduction of the Pacific Plate diving westward beneath the Okhotsk and North American plates along the 2,000-kilometer Kuril-Kamchatka Trench at 8 to 9 centimeters per year. This ultra-fast subduction zone has produced historic megathrust ruptures exceeding magnitude 8.5, as well as destructive regional tsunamis. Further west, transpressional shear faulting along Sakhalin Island and active continental rifting in southern Siberia (around Lake Baikal) generate strong intraplate earthquakes.

Key Facts About Russia Seismicity

Seismic Risk Level
ExtremeHazard Zone
Population Exposed

~144 million (Far East: ~4.5 million)

Primary Seismology Agency

GS RAS

Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Major Faults & Trenches
  • Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
  • Baikal Rift Zone
  • Sakhalin Shear Fault System
  • Chersky Range Faults
Tectonic Setting

Pacific Plate subducting beneath the Okhotsk Plate along Kuril-Kamchatka Trench

Notable Historic Quakes
  • 1952 Severo-Kurilsk (Kamchatka) MegathrustM9.0
  • 1995 Neftegorsk (Sakhalin) EarthquakeM7.1
  • 2006 Simushir (Kuril Islands) EarthquakeM8.3
FAQ · Russia

Frequently Asked Questions About Earthquakes in Russia

Expert answers to common questions about seismic risks, fault lines, and earthquake activity in Russia.

Check the live feed above for seismic events across Russia's Far East, the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands, and the Baikal Rift Zone.

Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands lie along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, a deep subduction zone where the Pacific Plate plunges beneath the Okhotsk Plate at about 8 cm per year, creating massive megathrust quakes and active stratovolcanoes.

On November 4, 1952, a colossal magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka, generating trans-oceanic tsunamis that devastated the town of Severo-Kurilsk and reached Hawaii and the US West Coast.

In south-central Siberia, Lake Baikal sits in an active continental rift valley where the crust is slowly pulling apart by several millimeters per year, producing regular moderate earthquakes far from ocean boundaries.

The Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) operates seismological stations throughout the Russian Federation, sharing real-time data with international seismological networks.