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Algeria vs Australia: Number of significant earthquakes

Algeria
1 events
in 2021
Australia
1 events
in 2021
Algeria rank
21st
Australia rank
21st

Number of significant earthquakes over time

  • Algeria
  • Australia
1234135916902021

How they compare

Algeria currently reports 1 events against 1 events in Australia, a difference of 0 events.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 12 shared years of data; in 1924 it was Australia ahead.

Algeria ranks 21st and Australia ranks 21st of 97 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Number of significant earthquakes
Unit
events
Source
National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
97 places, 4,005 data points, 1000–2024
Last refreshed

A significant earthquake meets at least one of the following: caused deaths, moderate damage ($1 million or more), a magnitude 7.5 or greater, Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) X or greater, or generated a tsunami. Due to data availability, recent data will be more complete than older historical estimates.