This is a list of different types of earthquake.

• Aftershock, a smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake, in the same area of the main shock.^[1][2]

• Blind thrust earthquake, an earthquake which occurs along a thrust fault that does not show signs on the Earth's surface.^[3]

• Cryoseism, a seismic event that may be caused by a sudden cracking action in frozen soil or rock saturated with water or ice.^[4]

• Deep-focus earthquake, also called a plutonic earthquake, an earthquake with a depth exceeding 70 kilometres (43 mi).^[5]
• Doublet earthquake, an earthquake that consists of at least two or more mainshocks of nearly identical magnitude, separated by a period of time.^[6]

• Earthquake swarm, events where a local area experiences sequences of many earthquakes striking in a relatively short period of time.^[7]

• Foreshock, an earthquake that occurs before a larger seismic event (the mainshock) and is related to it in both time and space.^[8]

• Harmonic tremor, a sustained release of seismic and infrasonic energy typically associated with the underground movement of magma, the venting of volcanic gases from magma, or both.^[9]

• Induced seismicity, typically minor earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity that alters the stresses and strains on the Earth's crust.^[10]
• Interplate earthquake, an earthquake that occurs at the boundary between tectonic plates.^[11]
• Intraplate earthquake, an earthquake that occurs within the interior of a tectonic plate.^[12][13]

• Megathrust earthquake, an earthquake occurring at subduction zones at destructive convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is forced underneath another.^[14]

• Remotely triggered earthquakes, a result of the effects of other earthquakes at considerable distance, outside of the immediate aftershock zones.^[15]

• Slow earthquake, a discontinuous, earthquake-like event that releases energy over a period of hours to months, rather than the seconds to minutes characteristic of a typical earthquake.^[16]
• Submarine earthquake, an earthquake that occurs underwater at the bottom of a body of water, especially an ocean.^[17]
• Supershear earthquake, an earthquake in which the propagation of the rupture along the fault surface occurs at speeds in excess of the seismic shear wave (S-wave) velocity, causing an effect analogous to a sonic boom.^[18]
• Strike-slip earthquake, an earthquake where two pieces of crust slide horizontally past each other.^[19]

• Tsunami earthquake, an earthquake that triggers a tsunami of a magnitude that is very much larger than the magnitude of the earthquake as measured by shorter-period seismic waves.^[20]

• Volcano tectonic earthquake, an earthquake induced by the movement (injection or withdrawal) of magma.^[21]