Earthquake record › M4.0 – M4.9

M4.0 – M4.9 in the Sealed USGS Record

764 events sealed in the M4.0 – M4.9 range, worldwide. The USGS all_day feed is global, so this page is global — framing it as a US figure would be a coverage claim in the wrong direction.

What this archive is, exactly. The USGS all_day feed holds the last 24 hours and is overwritten in place. We seal one dated copy of it per day. An event that appeared in the feed and was superseded between two of our seals is not in this archive at all. These pages are a record of what USGS asserted at each seal — they are not a complete catalogue of earthquakes, and nothing here should be read as one.

Review status as sealed: reviewed 763, automatic 1. An automatic value is a machine solution USGS may still revise; a reviewed value has had a human look at it. Which one you are reading matters more than the magnitude itself.

764 of 764 events in this range were sealed at or above M3.5 — the magnitude Texas Railroad Commission seismic-response conditions are written around. That is a count of what the feed said, not a determination about any permit, operator or well.

Get told when the record changes for your area

USGS publishes the last day and overwrites it, then revises events in place — automatic becomes reviewed, magnitudes move, and the old value stops existing everywhere. We seal a dated copy every day. Leave your email and we'll tell you when an event in your area is revised after the fact, with what it said before.

Email me revisions in my area →

Work email only. No newsletter, no obligation.

Prefer to just buy it? See the custom, source-cited close file, priced, with a sample deliverable.

Where they were, as USGS wrote it

State or territoryEvents
Alaska38
California5
the Northern Mariana Islands4
Oregon3
the U.S. Virgin Islands3
Colorado2
Hawaii1
Puerto Rico1

707 of 764 events in this range carry a place tail outside our US map and are left unassigned.

Largest in this range

MagnitudePlace, as publishedReview statusSeal
M4.9013 km SSE of Clam Gulch, Alaskareviewed2026-06-27
M4.90106 km NNW of Aleknagik, Alaskareviewed2026-07-16
M4.9096 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaskareviewed2026-07-23
M4.90Mid-Indian Ridgereviewed2026-06-23
M4.90171 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesiareviewed2026-06-23
M4.9064 km WNW of Catuday, Philippinesreviewed2026-06-24
M4.9028 km SE of Fry, Greecereviewed2026-06-24
M4.901 km E of El Palmarcito, Mexicoreviewed2026-06-24
M4.9024 km WSW of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-06-25
M4.9088 km SW of Nikolski, Alaskareviewed2026-06-26
M4.9020 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guineareviewed2026-06-28
M4.90173 km S of Lembar, Indonesiareviewed2026-06-29
M4.90Kermadec Islands regionreviewed2026-06-29
M4.9090 km S of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-06-29
M4.90234 km SSW of ‘Ohonua, Tongareviewed2026-06-30
M4.90South Sandwich Islands regionreviewed2026-07-01
M4.90south of the Fiji Islandsreviewed2026-07-01
M4.908 km SE of Pangyan, Philippinesreviewed2026-07-01
M4.90southeast of the Loyalty Islandsreviewed2026-07-01
M4.9050 km ENE of Kuji, Japanreviewed2026-07-02
Days we did not seal. 45 seals span 47 calendar days, so these days inside the span have no sealed copy: 2026-07-04, 2026-07-15. A missing day means we did not read the feed. It does not mean nothing happened, and those dates return a 404 here rather than a page reading zero.
One seal is wider than the others. These dates were collected more than once: 2026-07-16 (2 runs, 00:48 and 13:42 UTC). A day with two runs covers more than 24 source-hours, so its event count is larger for a collection reason and not a seismic one. Do not read it as a busy day.

Compiled from dated copies of the U.S. Geological Survey's public all_day realtime feed (a work of the US government, in the public domain). Values are reproduced exactly as USGS published them on the date shown and may since have been revised; USGS is the authority on the current value of any event. These pages are provided for informational purposes only, carry no warranty of accuracy or completeness, and are not an earthquake warning, a safety notice, or engineering advice. Always verify against the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program before relying on any figure.

Earthquake record home · What the record changed · How this is collected · US Tech Automations.