Sat Oct 14 15:05:05 2006 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/top_states.php State Number of Earthquakes 1974-2003 Percent of Total 1. Alaska 12053 57.2 % 2. California 4895 23.2 % 3. Hawaii 1533 7.3 % 4. Nevada 778 3.7 % 5. Washington 424 2.0 % 6. Idaho 404 1.9 % 7. Wyoming 217 1.0 % 8. Montana 186 0.9 % 9. Utah 139 0.7 % 10. Oregon 73 0.3 % 11. New Mexico 38 0.2 % 12. Arkansas 34 0.2 % 13. Arizona 32 0.2 % 14. Colorado 24 0.1 % 15. Tennessee 22 0.1 % 16. Missouri 21 17. Texas 20 18. Illinois 17 19. Oklahoma 17 20. Maine 16 21. New York 16 22. Alabama 15 23. Kentucky 15 24. South Carolina 10 25. South Dakota 10 26. Virginia 10 27. Nebraska 8 28. Ohio 8 29. Georgia 7 30. Indiana 6 31. New Hampshire 6 32. Pennsylvania 6 33. Kansas 4 34. North Carolina 3 35. Massachusetts 2 36. Michigan 2 37. Minnesota 2 38. Mississippi 2 39. New Jersey 2 40. Louisiana 1 41. Rhode Island 1 42. West Virginia 1 43. Connecticut 0 44. Delaware 0 45. Florida 0 46. Iowa 0 47. Maryland 0 48. North Dakota 0 49. Vermont 0 50. Wisconsin 0 Total 21080 ---- -------------------------------------------------------------------------