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Earthquakes in Iceland

4,768 earthquakes catalogued in and around Iceland between 1910 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
2.9
Latest earthquake · depth 0 km
02.08.2026 17:54 UTC · from centre 142 km
4,768
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.52
mean magnitude
4,294
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

04599191910: 1 (M5+)19101912: 1 (M5+)1913: 1 (M5+)1917: 1 (M5+)19191920: 1 (M5+)1921: 1 (M5+)1924: 1 (M5+)1927: 1 (M5+)19281929: 2 (M5+)1933: 1 (M5+)1934: 1 (M5+)1935: 1 (M5+)1936: 2 (M5+)19371944: 2 (M5+)19461948: 1 (M5+)1952: 2 (M5+)1955: 2 (M4–5)1955: 3 (M5+)19551956: 4 (M4–5)1956: 1 (M5+)1958: 4 (M4–5)1959: 2 (M4–5)1959: 1 (M5+)1960: 1 (M4–5)1961: 1 (M4–5)1962: 2 (M4–5)1963: 2 (M4–5)1963: 1 (M5+)1964: 1 (M4–5)1964: 1 (M5+)19641967: 13 (M4–5)1967: 1 (M5+)1968: 3 (M4–5)1968: 1 (M5+)1969: 5 (M4–5)1969: 1 (M5+)1970: 2 (M4–5)1971: 6 (M4–5)1972: 2 (M4–5)1973: 8 (M4–5)1973: 2 (M5+)19731974: 17 (M4–5)1974: 5 (M5+)1975: 23 (M4–5)1975: 2 (M5+)1976: 39 (M4–5)1976: 2 (M5+)1977: 1 (M3–4)1977: 8 (M4–5)1977: 1 (M5+)1978: 2 (M3–4)1978: 19 (M4–5)1979: 4 (M4–5)1979: 1 (M5+)1980: 10 (M4–5)1980: 3 (M5+)1981: 1 (M4–5)1982: 2 (M4–5)19821983: 9 (M4–5)1984: 2 (M4–5)1985: 6 (M4–5)1986: 2 (M4–5)1986: 1 (M5+)1987: 1 (M3–4)1987: 2 (M4–5)1987: 1 (M5+)1988: 4 (M4–5)1989: 1 (M3–4)1989: 2 (M4–5)1989: 1 (M5+)1990: 3 (M3–4)1990: 11 (M4–5)1990: 2 (M5+)1991: 1 (M5+)19911992: 1 (M3–4)1992: 1 (M4–5)1992: 1 (M5+)1993: 2 (M4–5)1993: 1 (M5+)1994: 3 (M4–5)1994: 2 (M5+)1995: 2 (M3–4)1995: 3 (M4–5)1996: 8 (M3–4)1996: 12 (M4–5)1996: 1 (M5+)1997: 3 (M3–4)1997: 10 (M4–5)1998: 4 (M3–4)1998: 4 (M4–5)1998: 2 (M5+)1999: 3 (M3–4)2000: 1 (M3–4)2000: 5 (M5+)20002001: 1 (M4–5)2002: 1 (M3–4)2002: 1 (M4–5)2002: 1 (M5+)2003: 3 (M4–5)2003: 1 (M5+)2004: 4 (M3–4)2004: 3 (M4–5)2005: 1 (M<3)2005: 20 (M3–4)2005: 4 (M4–5)2006: 1 (M<3)2006: 15 (M3–4)2006: 2 (M4–5)2007: 2 (M<3)2007: 45 (M3–4)2007: 8 (M4–5)2008: 1 (M<3)2008: 88 (M3–4)2008: 15 (M4–5)2008: 1 (M5+)2009: 1 (M<3)2009: 33 (M3–4)2009: 6 (M4–5)20092010: 3 (M<3)2010: 36 (M3–4)2010: 4 (M4–5)2010: 2 (M5+)2011: 1 (M<3)2011: 40 (M3–4)2011: 7 (M4–5)2012: 44 (M3–4)2012: 8 (M4–5)2012: 2 (M5+)2013: 55 (M3–4)2013: 13 (M4–5)2013: 2 (M5+)2014: 128 (M3–4)2014: 263 (M4–5)2014: 48 (M5+)2015: 27 (M3–4)2015: 41 (M4–5)2015: 1 (M5+)2016: 3 (M3–4)2016: 1 (M4–5)2017: 101 (M3–4)2017: 21 (M4–5)2018: 168 (M3–4)2018: 11 (M4–5)2018: 1 (M5+)20182019: 106 (M3–4)2019: 5 (M4–5)2020: 358 (M3–4)2020: 35 (M4–5)2020: 6 (M5+)2021: 396 (M3–4)2021: 52 (M4–5)2021: 10 (M5+)2022: 156 (M<3)2022: 301 (M3–4)2022: 39 (M4–5)2022: 5 (M5+)2023: 293 (M<3)2023: 553 (M3–4)2023: 67 (M4–5)2023: 6 (M5+)2024: 78 (M<3)2024: 99 (M3–4)2024: 6 (M4–5)2024: 4 (M5+)2025: 159 (M<3)2025: 231 (M3–4)2025: 26 (M4–5)2025: 5 (M5+)2026: 58 (M<3)2026: 64 (M3–4)2026: 11 (M4–5)2026: 2 (M5+)2026
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+

Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.

Largest earthquakes

Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
7.122.01.1910 08:4835 km298 km
7.006.05.1912 19:0035 km117 km
6.828.03.1963 00:1510 km144 km
6.517.06.2000 15:4010.4 km145 km
6.421.06.2000 00:518.7 km143 km
6.323.07.1929 18:4310 km165 km
6.329.05.2008 15:464.2 km149 km
6.313.01.1976 13:293.6 km177 km
6.202.06.1934 13:4235 km121 km
6.223.08.1921 20:1735 km231 km
6.010.06.1933 12:0635 km216 km
6.021.06.2020 19:079 km161 km
6.025.05.1987 11:316.7 km142 km
6.005.12.1968 09:4410 km164 km
5.926.07.1913 20:5115 km232 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
2.902.08.2026 17:540 km142 km
3.428.07.2026 16:571.1 km94 km
3.128.07.2026 05:440 km87 km
5.528.07.2026 05:3610 km83 km
3.927.07.2026 00:363 km143 km
2.825.07.2026 16:4410 km283 km
2.925.07.2026 05:381.6 km286 km
3.025.07.2026 05:3213.8 km288 km
3.425.07.2026 05:275.9 km287 km
3.815.07.2026 19:250 km149 km
3.008.07.2026 14:4412.4 km146 km
3.006.07.2026 22:435.2 km89 km
4.206.07.2026 12:495.2 km112 km
2.801.07.2026 23:3319.2 km65 km
3.630.06.2026 21:355.2 km148 km
2.927.06.2026 01:001.7 km95 km
2.926.06.2026 05:230 km150 km
3.324.06.2026 00:072 km96 km
3.322.06.2026 01:4912.2 km252 km
3.020.06.2026 03:440 km242 km
2.815.06.2026 18:035.1 km211 km
3.614.06.2026 01:270 km78 km
2.814.06.2026 01:077.7 km81 km
2.914.06.2026 00:550 km77 km
3.414.06.2026 00:461.1 km130 km
2.814.06.2026 00:420 km79 km
3.014.06.2026 00:330 km80 km
2.814.06.2026 00:214.2 km79 km
3.514.06.2026 00:170 km77 km
2.813.06.2026 23:453.2 km79 km
3.013.06.2026 23:270 km81 km
2.813.06.2026 23:200 km80 km
3.313.06.2026 22:3010 km64 km
4.213.06.2026 20:1410 km78 km
2.810.06.2026 02:559.2 km223 km
2.806.06.2026 00:381.1 km202 km
2.805.06.2026 19:063.7 km96 km
3.503.06.2026 23:082.8 km95 km
3.203.06.2026 10:403 km159 km
2.803.06.2026 10:057.9 km93 km
3.302.06.2026 14:3510 km250 km
3.401.06.2026 16:464 km155 km
3.801.06.2026 16:172.7 km154 km
3.101.06.2026 14:1210 km89 km
3.601.06.2026 13:450 km146 km
2.931.05.2026 18:283.7 km153 km
3.531.05.2026 17:154.5 km155 km
2.931.05.2026 17:012.6 km153 km
2.831.05.2026 06:553.5 km153 km
4.025.05.2026 03:5010 km74 km
3.024.05.2026 18:317.9 km223 km
3.424.05.2026 06:140 km78 km
3.424.05.2026 05:069.1 km225 km
2.824.05.2026 04:211.3 km223 km
2.823.05.2026 22:456.5 km224 km
2.921.05.2026 16:120 km83 km
3.613.05.2026 00:310 km146 km
2.911.05.2026 14:242.7 km95 km
2.927.04.2026 04:000 km246 km
2.925.04.2026 23:444.9 km218 km

Regions

Southern2,097Northeastern1,980Southern Peninsula1,740Austurland1,045Reykjavík881Capital621Northwestern360Western267

Method and sources

What this page counts
An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
Location precision
Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
Magnitude scales
The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
Deduplication
The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
Updates
Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
Sources
USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
Reporting an error
If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.