Brazil

BRA · 2024 energy mix · renewables 42.6% · fossil fuels 49.4%

Threat reading 60 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 170 events recorded here in the last seven days, 170 in the last thirty.

That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.

Where its energy comes from

Oil37.3%
Hydro26.3%
Gas8.2%
Wind6.9%
Other renewables4.8%
Solar4.5%
Coal3.9%
Nuclear1.0%

In 2024, renewables accounted for 42.6% and fossil fuels for 49.4%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Brazil is close to balanced on electricity trade.

Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.

Recorded history

NOAA's hazard records hold 13 significant earthquakes and one tsunami in or just off Brazil since 1666.

The deadliest was the 27 January 1922 magnitude 5.1 earthquake (Brazil: Sao Paulo), which killed one person.

The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 7.6, on 9 November 1963 (Brazil: Acre).

The most recent entry is the 19 May 2012 magnitude 4.1 earthquake (Brazil: Montes Claros).

Across the entries that record a death toll, 4 people died.

DateWhatWhereToll
27 January 1922magnitude 5.1 earthquakeBrazil: Sao Paulo1 dead, damage under $1 million
30 November 1986magnitude 4.8 earthquakeBrazil: Joao Camara, Natal1 dead, 500 homes destroyed, $5 million damage
9 December 2007magnitude 4.6 earthquakeBrazil: Minas Gerais1 dead, 76 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million
23 February 1968magnitude 4.6 earthquakeBrazil: Pereiro1 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
9 November 1963magnitude 7.6 earthquakeBrazil: Acre-
20 November 1980magnitude 5.2 earthquakeBrazil: Pacajusdamage $1 to 5 million
9 May 1789tsunamiCananeia-
29 February 2008magnitude 4.3 earthquakeBrazil: Sobraldamage under $1 million
23 November 1919magnitude 4.2 earthquakeBrazil: Reconcavodamage under $1 million
19 May 2012magnitude 4.1 earthquakeBrazil: Montes Clarosdamage under $1 million
9 May 1789magnitude 3.7 earthquakeBrazil: Cananeia-
21 May 2008earthquakeBrazil: Alcantarasdamage under $1 million
7 March 1950earthquakeBrazil-
1666earthquakeBrazil: Salvador-

A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.

Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.

In the last 30 days

The most recent events our feeds placed in Brazil:

What the threat reading is made of

Conflict31
Unrest0
Security15
Spillover from neighbours17
Natural hazard82
Resilience70

Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.

Other countries tracked

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Where the data comes from

Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.