Italy
ITA · 2024 energy mix · renewables 20.1% · fossil fuels 79.1%
Threat reading 41 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 47 events recorded here in the last seven days, 47 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 | 42.4% |
|---|---|
| Gas | 35.0% |
| Hydro | 8.0% |
| Solar | 5.2% |
| Other renewables | 3.6% |
| Wind | 3.2% |
| Coal | 1.7% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 20.1% and fossil fuels for 79.1%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Italy is a net importer of electricity.
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 338 significant earthquakes, 53 tsunamis and 60 significant eruptions in or just off Italy since 63.
The deadliest was the 28 December 1908 magnitude 7.0 earthquake (Italy: Messina, Sicily, Calabria), which killed 80,000 people.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 7.5, on 13 January 1915 (Italy: Marsica, Avezzano, Abruzzi).
The most recent entry is the 4 March 2026 magnitude 4.5 earthquake (Italy: Catania: Ragalna).
Across the entries that record a death toll, 535,911 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 December 1908 | tsunami (waves to 13 m) | Messina Strait, Ionian Sea | 80,000 dead, $116 million damage |
| 28 December 1908 | magnitude 7.0 earthquake | Italy: Messina, Sicily, Calabria | 80,000 dead, $116 million damage |
| 9 January 1693 | magnitude 6.0 earthquake | Italy: Sicily, Calabria, Catania | 60,000 dead, 972 homes destroyed, damage over $25 million |
| 11 January 1693 | magnitude 7.4 earthquake | Italy: Sicily, Calabria | 54,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 11 January 1693 | tsunami (waves to 12 m) | Island of Sicily | 54,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 14 January 1703 | earthquake | Italy: Central Apennino, Norcia, L'aquila, Perugia | 40,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 5 February 1783 | magnitude 6.9 earthquake | Italy: Tyrrhenian Calabria | 30,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 5 February 1783 | tsunami | Tyrrhenian Calabria | 30,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 5 December 1456 | earthquake | Italy: Avellino, Napoli, Abruzzi, Brindisi, Benevento | 30,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 13 January 1915 | magnitude 7.5 earthquake | Italy: Marsica, Avezzano, Abruzzi | 29,978 dead, $60 million damage |
| 4 February 1169 | tsunami | Eastern Sicily | 16,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 4 February 1169 | eruption | Etna, Italy | 16,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 4 February 1169 | earthquake | Italy: Sicily: Siracusa (Syracuse); Calabria | 16,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 1137 | earthquake | Italy: Sicily: Catania | 15,000 dead |
| 25 December 1222 | earthquake | Italy: Brescia | 12,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 2 February 1703 | magnitude 6.7 earthquake | Italy: L'aquila (Aquila) | 10,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 16 December 1857 | magnitude 6.5 earthquake | Italy: Campania, Potenza | 10,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 16 September 1857 | earthquake | Italy: Calabria, Montemurro | 10,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 6 August 1757 | earthquake | Italy: Siracusa (Syracuse) | 10,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 27 March 1638 | magnitude 7.0 earthquake | Italy: Cosenza, Martirano, Nicastro, Calabria | 9,581 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 1248 | earthquake | Italy: Sabaudia | 9,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 26 July 1805 | earthquake | Italy: Molise, Rosolone, Napoli (Naples), Isernia | 5,600 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 30 July 1627 | magnitude 6.7 earthquake | Italy: Lesina | 5,000 dead |
| 30 July 1627 | tsunami | Gargano Peninsula | 5,000 dead |
| 25 January 1348 | earthquake | Austria:villach; Italy:veneto; Slovenia:celovac | 5,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 451 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 Italy:
- 7 November 2026: M 2.1 - SOUTHERN ITALY
- 7 November 2026: M 0.8 - NORTHERN ITALY
- 7 November 2026: M 2.4 - CENTRAL ITALY
- 7 November 2026: M 2.0 - NORTHERN ITALY
- 7 November 2026: M 0.9 - NORTHERN ITALY
- 7 November 2026: M 1.1 - NORTHERN ITALY
- 7 November 2026: M 0.8 - NORTHERN ITALY
- 7 November 2026: M 1.7 - NORTHERN ITALY
- 7 November 2026: M 1.0 - NORTHERN ITALY
- 7 November 2026: Yellow Rain Warning for Italy - Campania
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 0 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 9 |
| Natural hazard | 70 |
| Resilience | 84 |
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.
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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.