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Earthquakes in Alabama

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0 quakes of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days in Alabama. Normal for here is 0 to 1 in a week.

Compared against Alabama's own 10 years · USGS catalogue · updated

The last 30 days

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Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. The shaded band is the magnitude a day's largest quake normally falls in here (M2.0–M2.4), from this place's own 10-year record. A mark above the band is a bigger day than usual.

Live · last 7 days

Latest earthquakes in Alabama

None in Alabama in the latest snapshot we hold; the full 7 days load from USGS as this page opens.

Source USGS · snapshot of

Where this is

Centre 32.949, -86.743 — the mean of this state’s place centroids, from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Activity is measured across a rectangle drawn around the state, so a few earthquakes just over its border are counted too.

Largest on record in and around Alabama

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 3.8 1 km W of Pollard, Alabama
M 3.1 7 km SSE of Sewanee, Tennessee
M 3.1 4 km N of Flomaton, Alabama
M 3.1 6 km NNW of Pollard, Alabama
M 3.1 10 km E of Maplesville, Alabama
M 3.0 8 km NW of Lake View, Alabama
M 3.0 7 km W of North Johns, Alabama
M 2.9 16 km NNE of Eton, Georgia

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · inside a rectangle drawn around Alabama, which takes in some ground over its borders.

Counties in Alabama

After an earthquake here