M6.8 Earthquake — Macquarie Island region

A magnitude 6.8 (strong) earthquake struck Macquarie Island region on 2024-03-03 16:16 UTC, at a depth of 23 km. See it live on Earth Live's real-time 3D globe.

USGS PAGER green: low likelihood of casualties or damage — the USGS estimate of human and economic impact.

This is the USGS oceanic-region flag. It is not a tsunami warning. For official alerts check tsunami.gov and your national authority.

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Source: USGS event page. The TNT equivalent is computed from the magnitude with the standard Gutenberg–Richter energy relation; all other figures are USGS's own.

This area's earthquake history

In the year before this quake, USGS recorded 8 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more within 300 km.

Strongest recorded within 300 km since 1900:

• M7.4 — Macquarie Island region · 1987-09-03
• M7.3 — Macquarie Island region · 1970-06-11
• M7.0 — Macquarie Island region · 2025-07-28

More recent earthquakes

• M5.0 — 14 km SE of Río Grande, Panama
• M5.0 — 18 km S of Los Asientos, Panama
• M5.0 — 19 km S of Leones Arriba, Panama
• M5.8 — 1 km S of El Cacao, Panama
• M5.5 — 3 km SW of Bajo Corral, Panama
• M7.7 — 12 km WSW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama
• M4.8 — 191 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• M4.7 — 138 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

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