QuakeIndex

Earthquakes in Minnesota

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

Compared against Minnesota'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 (M2.7–M3.1), 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 Minnesota

None in Minnesota 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 45.500, -94.269 — 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 Minnesota

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 3.4 5 km NNE of Kinney, Minnesota
M 3.4 7 km N of Parkville, Minnesota
M 3.3 3 km S of Kinney, Minnesota
M 3.3 4 km WNW of Mountain Iron, Minnesota
M 3.3 4 km NNW of Mountain Iron, Minnesota
M 3.3 7 km NNW of Mountain Iron, Minnesota
M 3.3 3 km SW of Babbitt, Minnesota
M 3.2 6 km N of Keewatin, Minnesota

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

Counties in Minnesota

After an earthquake here