Swiss Seismological Service

On 28 March at 12.50 local time (07.20 Swiss time), a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar at a depth of approximately 10 to 20 kilometres, about 20 kilometres west of the city of Mandalay. Shortly after this earthquake, a series of aftershocks with magnitudes between 6.4 and 4. ...

2024 was a record year: there were some 2,300 recorded earthquakes in Switzerland and neighbouring regions, substantially more than the previous annual high of 1,660 earthquakes in 2019. There are many factors behind this record, which are not yet fully understood. As well as active earthquake sequences, a dense measurement network and improved assessment methods, external influences such as glacier melt in high mountain regions and heavy precipitation in the early summer might have played a role. Of the 2,300 earthquakes, 47 had a magnitude of 2.5 or more, and two a magnitude of over 4.0. ...