Fault displacement hazard assessment is based on the analysis of empirical datasets. Here, I present a dataset of surface ruptures related to 18 normal and strike-slip events occurred between 1905 and 2011, with a magnitude range of Mw 5.9 – 8.3. Rupture traces were digitized from published maps at a variable scale, dependent on the resolution of the original map. Earthquakes are from Iran (7 events), Mongolia, China, Turkey, Greece (2 events for each country), Italy, Kenya and Japan (1 event). The dataset aligns with the recent efforts to constitute a worldwide and unified fault displacement database (e.g., SURE database, Baize et al., 2019). The Table “events” contains details on the analyzed dataset, in a format similar to that proposed by SURE. The shapefile contains the ruptured segments, coordinate system: WGS84.