About Israel Quakes
Israel Quakes shows which earthquakes may have been felt in Israel, where, and how strongly. Data comes from EMSC and USGS every minute; the felt-intensity estimate comes from a published intensity model calibrated on reports from Israel.
Data sources
Every minute we read the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). When both report the same quake, both solutions are shown with their update times, and the page says so if they differ. The Geological Survey of Israel (GSI) is the authority for quakes in and around Israel; it has no public data feed, so we link to its site.
Felt intensity
The map uses the Atkinson and Wald (2007) intensity model with a regional correction we calibrated on 475 "Did You Feel It?" boxes from inside Israel (400 quakes, 2000 to 2026): near the epicentre the model reads about half a degree lower here than in California. A quake is labelled "may have been felt" when the estimate, including people at rest or on upper floors, reaches about 2.25 in some locality, or for a strong quake (M6 or more) within 1,200 km; "felt" from 2.5 or when three people report it. We checked the rule against the Geological Survey of Israel's quake list (June 2023 to November 2026): 25 of the 32 quakes GSI marked as felt are labelled here too, and 30 of almost 5,000 that were not felt. Public reports pull the map toward what people actually felt (from 3 reports in a locality).
Reports
A report has a locality and an intensity on the EMS-98 scale, and optionally a short note that is checked automatically. One report per device per quake. A sudden rise in reports with no detected quake shows a notice that it is not yet confirmed.
What this site is not
It is not an early-warning or alert service and does not replace the Home Front Command. It never maps impacts or explosions.
Source status
- European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC): last answered today 18:52
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): last answered today 18:52