LIVE Quake Cam, picks up M3 quakes in the US, M5 around US and M6 quakes worldwide

Earthquakes Today brings you the world's recent and latest earthquakes. Worldwide there are around 1400 earthquakes each day (500,000 each year). 275 of these can actually be felt. The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 (Mw) in Chile on May 22, 1960. The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in central China. It struck a region where most people lived in caves carved from soft rock. These dwellings collapsed during the earthquake, killing an estimated 830,000 people.More recent catastrophic earthquakes are the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 earthquake in Japan and the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

For more information about the damage and occurrences of earthquakes, take a look at the Richter Scale Table.