Earthquakes in Eritrea

This Eritrea page is built for quick answers: what shook recently, and what are the historically largest events we list for Eritrea. East Africa’s rift branches produce frequent shallow normal-fault earthquakes; the western Indian Ocean includes transform and spreading seismicity. Switch between an Eritrea earthquake map style view, stronger events such as M4+ earthquakes in Eritrea, and the story of the biggest earthquake in Eritrea history—without drifting away from Eritrea.