QuakeIndex

Earthquakes in Rhode Island

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Too few earthquakes here to say what is "normal"

Only 20 earthquakes of M1.5 or largerhave been recorded in Rhode Island in the 10 years of record we hold, and most weeks have none. A QuakeIndex score is a percentile against this place's own weeks — and when almost every week is empty, that number would just be reporting whether anything happened at all, dressed up as a percentile. So we do not publish one.

This is a statement about Rhode Island, not about our data: it is a quiet place. There have been none of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days.

USGS catalogue · updated

The last 30 days

Aug 29 Sep 13 Sep 27
Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. There is not yet enough history here to draw a normal range.

Live · last 7 days

Latest earthquakes in Rhode Island

None in Rhode Island 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 41.640, -71.576 — 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 Rhode Island

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 3.6 10 km S of Bliss Corner, Massachusetts
M 2.3 43 km SSE of New Shoreham, Rhode Island
M 2.3 8 km WNW of New Shoreham, Rhode Island
M 2.2 18 km SSE of Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island
M 2.1 18 km NE of New Shoreham, Rhode Island
M 2.1 1 km W of North Plymouth, Massachusetts
M 2.0 southern New England
M 2.0 18 km NE of New Shoreham, Rhode Island

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

Counties in Rhode Island

After an earthquake here