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Quake-related information—maps, reports, advice—for Europe.

Europe: Seismic Hazard Map—From the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program.

European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre—See current and recent earthquakes everywhere in Europe. Not always responsive.

Austria: Aktuelle Erdbeben—That's "current earthquakes," presented in German by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics.

Austria: Live Seismograms—Allow popups to use this source of current data.

Belgium: Seismicity—The Royal Observatory of Belgium has everything, but not necessarily in English.

Belgium: Live Seismograms—Updated every 10 minutes with data from five Belgian stations.

Czech Republic: Seismological Service—The Czech Academy of Sciences posts news of current earthquakes in this seismically quiet country.

France: Earthquakes—The French national seismic network (RéNaSS) shows recent significant events, with reports linked to each, when you click the Sismicité button.

France: French Alps Seismic Network—This University of Grenoble site also covers nearby parts of Italy and Switzerland. Here are maps of historic and recent seismicity.

Germany: Erdbebendienst—The University of Freiburg has bulletins and maps of German quakes (in German).

Germany: Recent Rheinland Earthquakes—An interactive map in German from the University of Köln.

Greece: Greek Seismicity—An introduction from the National Observatory of Athens.

Iceland: Earthquakes—Maps and bulletins from the Icelandic Meteorological Office. For a thrill, click the Icelandic version.

Italy: Grupo Nazionale per la Difesa dai Terremoti—The National Earthquake Protection Group site has useful pages for recent quakes (some in English) and seismic hazard and engineering studies (in Italian).

Montenegro: Seismological Observatory—Material in English and Serbian on the historical and current seismicity of this Balkan nation.

Norway: National Seismic Network—The Institute of Solid Earth Physics at the University of Bergen has information about the quakes of this tectonically quiet region, due almost entirely to glacial rebound.

Portugal: Recent Earthquakes—From the Instituto Geofísico do Infante D. Luis in Lisbon.

Romania: Seismicity—A map and scattered information from the Romanian National Institute for Earth Physics.

Scandinavia: Current Earthquakes—The university of Helsinki posts information for Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Slovakia: Earthquake Activity—A page from the Slovak National Network of Seismic Stations.

Spain: Seismic Information Service—Earthquake information for the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands.

Spain: Recent Activity in Andalucía—Recent and historic earthquakes in southern Spain are documented by the Andalusian Institute of Geophysics.

Spain: Earthquakes in Catalonia—Quake settings, maps and history from the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (in English, Spanish and Catalan).

Switzerland: Swiss Seismological Service—Quick, efficient access to current earthquakes in Switzerland and Europe.

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