Italy

Natural hazards, earthquakes, volcanoes, weather warnings and conditions across Italy, with every town we track. Updated automatically from official sources.

Notable events, 12 months

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Quakes, 12 months (all sizes)

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Strongest quake, 10 years

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Recent activity

Notable events in Italy in the last 90 days.

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Deadliest disasters in history

Damaging earthquakes, tsunamis and eruptions in Italy, from NOAA records going back centuries.

M7.0 earthquake, Messina, Sicily, Calabria
28 December 1908Triggered a tsunami80,000 killed$116m damage
M6.0 earthquake, Sicily, Calabria, Catania
9 January 1693Triggered a tsunami60,000 killed972 homes destroyed
M7.4 earthquake, Sicily, Calabria
11 January 1693Triggered a tsunami54,000 killed
Earthquake, Central Apennino, Norcia, L'aquila, Perugia
14 January 170340,000 killed
M6.9 earthquake, Tyrrhenian Calabria
5 February 1783Triggered a tsunami30,000 killed
Earthquake, Avellino,Napoli,Abruzzi, Brindisi,Benevento
5 December 1456Triggered a tsunami30,000 killed
M7.5 earthquake, Marsica, Avezzano, Abruzzi
13 January 191529,978 killed$60m damage
Earthquake, Sicily: Siracusa (Syracuse); Calabria
4 February 1169Triggered a tsunami16,000 killed
Etna eruption
4 February 116916,000 killed
Earthquake, Sicily: Catania
113715,000 killed