Areas with little to no earthquakes are generally located away from tectonic plate boundaries, in the stable interiors of tectonic plates. Specifically:
- Large parts of the Pacific Ocean, northernmost Asia (Russia), the majority of Europe, and the central and eastern regions of South and North America experience very few earthquakes
- Countries and regions situated in the central parts of tectonic plates, such as Australia, Greenland, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Antarctica, are considered relatively quiet seismic zones
- Some countries with very low earthquake risk include Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Andorra, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Malta, and Barbados. These places have infrequent and usually minor seismic activity due to their distance from active fault lines
- In the UK and Ireland, earthquakes are rare and mostly weak, with eastern Scotland and northeast England almost free of seismic activity
- Antarctica has the least earthquakes of any continent, though small earthquakes can still occur
No place on Earth is completely free from seismic activity, but these regions and countries have the lowest risk due to their geological stability and distance from plate boundaries
