Spain
ESP · 2024 energy mix · renewables 24.6% · fossil fuels 65.8%
Threat reading 37 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 350 events recorded here in the last seven days, 350 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
| Oil | 46.3% |
|---|---|
| Gas | 17.7% |
| Wind | 9.6% |
| Solar | 8.6% |
| Nuclear | 8.3% |
| Hydro | 5.3% |
| Coal | 1.7% |
| Other renewables | 1.2% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 24.6% and fossil fuels for 65.8%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Spain 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 35 significant earthquakes, 10 tsunamis and 5 significant eruptions in or just off Spain since 881.
The deadliest was the 21 March 1829 earthquake (Spain: Torrevieja, Murcia), which killed 2,000 people.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 7.5, on 26 May 881 (Spain; Algeria; Morocco).
The most recent entry is the 19 September 2021 VEI 3 eruption (La Palma, Canary Is), which killed one person.
Across the entries that record a death toll, 5,515 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 March 1829 | earthquake | Spain: Torrevieja, Murcia | 2,000 dead, 3,000 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 22 September 1522 | tsunami | Alboran Sea | 1,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 22 September 1522 | earthquake | Spain: Almeria; Morocco: Fez | 1,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 2 February 1428 | earthquake | France: Prats de Mollo; Spain: Olot | 800 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 25 December 1884 | magnitude 6.7 earthquake | Spain: Arenas del Rey, Vega, Alhama, Malaga | 745 dead, 4,399 homes destroyed, damage over $25 million |
| 30 September 1531 | earthquake | Spain: Baza | 400 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 25 August 1804 | magnitude 6.4 earthquake | Spain: Almeria, Dalias, Roquetas | 173 dead, 2,500 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 9 November 1518 | earthquake | Spain: Vera | 165 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 9 October 1680 | magnitude 6.8 earthquake | Spain: Malaga | 70 dead, 2,111 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 9 October 1680 | tsunami (waves to 5 m) | Alboran Sea | 70 dead, 2,111 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 28 August 1674 | earthquake | Spain: Lorca | 40 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 5 April 1504 | earthquake | Spain: Carmona | 32 dead |
| 2 December 1620 | earthquake | Spain: Alicante | 30 dead, 380 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 26 June 1644 | earthquake | Spain: Alicante | 19 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 27 October 1806 | magnitude 5.3 earthquake | Spain: Granada | 13 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 19 April 1956 | magnitude 5.0 earthquake | Spain | 11 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 11 May 2011 | magnitude 5.1 earthquake | Spain: Lorca | 10 dead, $260 million damage |
| 13 January 1804 | magnitude 6.7 earthquake | Spain: Almeria: Dalias | 2 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 21 May 1997 | magnitude 5.4 earthquake | Spain: Galicia; Portugal | 2 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 13 January 1804 | tsunami | Alboran Sea | 2 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 18 March 1817 | magnitude 5.7 earthquake | Spain: la Rioja | 1 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 19 September 2021 | VEI 3 eruption | La Palma, Canary Is | 1 dead, 1,345 homes destroyed, $924 million damage |
| 22 November 1677 | VEI 2 eruption | La Palma, Canary Is | 1 dead |
| 26 May 881 | magnitude 7.5 earthquake | Spain; Algeria; Morocco | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 29 March 1954 | magnitude 7.0 earthquake | Spain | damage $5 to 25 million |
These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 50 entries. 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 Spain:
- 7 November 2026: M 1.5 - SPAIN
- 7 November 2026: M 1.5 - SPAIN
- 7 November 2026: Minor low temperature warning.
- 7 November 2026: Minor coastal event warning.
- 7 November 2026: Minor high temperature warning.
- 7 November 2026: Minor fog warning.
- 7 November 2026: Minor rain warning.
- 7 November 2026: Minor thunderstorm warning.
- 7 November 2026: Minor wind warning.
- 7 November 2026: Minor snow warning.
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 2 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 0 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 7 |
| Natural hazard | 60 |
| Resilience | 79 |
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
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.