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Earthquakes in History

20,130 significant events · page 1/336

From the earliest recorded earthquakes to today. Records are sorted by magnitude and impact; each event has its own page with location, date, source and nearby events.

  1. 1.1960 CEEarthquake — Chile, Puerto Montt, Valdivia (Mw 9.5)· 2,226 deaths
  2. 2.1960 CEEarthquake — 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake (Valdivia Earthquake) (Mw 9.5)
  3. 3.1964 CEEarthquake — Alaska (Mw 9.2)· 139 deaths
  4. 4.1964 CEEarthquake — The 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska Earthquake (Mw 9.2)
  5. 5.2004 CEEarthquake — Indonesia, Sumatra: Aceh: Off West Coast (Mw 9.1)· 227,899 deaths
  6. 6.2011 CEEarthquake — Japan, Honshu (Mw 9.1)· 18,423 deaths
  7. 7.1730 CEEarthquake — Chile, Valparaiso (Mw 9.1)· 5 deaths
  8. 8.2011 CEEarthquake — 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake, Japan (Mww 9.1)
  9. 9.2004 CEEarthquake — 2004 Sumatra - Andaman Islands Earthquake (Mw 9.1)
  10. 10.1952 CEEarthquake — Russia, Kamchatka Peninsula (Mw 9)· 10,000 deaths
  11. 11.1952 CEEarthquake — 89 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (Mw 9)
  12. 12.1700 CEEarthquake — The 1700 Cascadia Earthquake (Mw 9)
  13. 13.1700 CEEarthquake — Cascadia Subduction Zone (Ms 9)
  14. 14.1906 CEEarthquake — Ecuador, Off Coast (Mw 8.8)· 1,000 deaths
  15. 15.2010 CEEarthquake — Chile, Maule, Concepcion, Talcahuano (Mw 8.8)· 558 deaths
  16. 16.2025 CEEarthquake — Russia, Kamchatka Peninsula (Mw 8.8)· 1 deaths
  17. 17.2025 CEEarthquake — 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake (Mww 8.8)
  18. 18.2010 CEEarthquake — 2010 Maule, Chile Earthquake (Mww 8.8)
  19. 19.1906 CEEarthquake — 1906 Ecuador-Colombia Earthquake (Mw 8.8)
  20. 20.1716 CEEarthquake — Peru, Pueblo De Torata In Tacna (M 8.8)
  21. 21.1755 CEEarthquake — Portugal (Mw 8.72)
  22. 22.1897 CEEarthquake — Philippines, Mindanao, Zamboanga, Sulu, Isabela (Ms 8.7)· 13 deaths
  23. 23.1965 CEEarthquake — 1965 Western Aleutian Islands (Hawadax/Rat Islands) Earthquake (Mw 8.7)
  24. 24.1965 CEEarthquake — Alaska, Aleutian Islands: Rat Islands (Mw 8.7)
  25. 25.1513 CEEarthquake — Peru (M 8.7)
  26. 26.1950 CEEarthquake — India-China (Mw 8.6)· 1,530 deaths
  27. 27.2005 CEEarthquake — Indonesia, Sumatera: Sw (Mw 8.6)· 1,319 deaths
  28. 28.1619 CEEarthquake — Peru, Trujillo, Piura, Santa (Ms 8.6)· 350 deaths
  29. 29.1946 CEEarthquake — Alaska, Unimak Island (Mw 8.6)· 168 deaths
  30. 30.1787 CEEarthquake — Mexico, San Marcos, Oaxaca (Mw 8.6)· 11 deaths
  31. 31.2012 CEEarthquake — Indonesia, N Sumatra: Off West Coast (Mw 8.6)· 10 deaths
  32. 32.1957 CEEarthquake — Alaska (Mw 8.6)· 2 deaths
  33. 33.2012 CEEarthquake — 2012 Wharton Basin Earthquake (Mw 8.6)
  34. 34.2005 CEEarthquake — 78 km WSW of Singkil, Indonesia (Mww 8.6)
  35. 35.1957 CEEarthquake — 1957 Atka, Alaska Earthquake (Mw 8.6)
  36. 36.1950 CEEarthquake — 1950 Assam-Tibet Earthquake (Mw 8.6)
  37. 37.1946 CEEarthquake — 1946 Unimak Island, Alaska Earthquake (Mw 8.6)
  38. 38.1938 CEEarthquake — Indonesia, New Guinea (Mw 8.6)
  39. 39.1897 CEEarthquake — Philippines, Nw Mindanao: Dapitan (Ms 8.6)
  40. 40.1716 CEEarthquake — Peru (M 8.6)
  41. 41.1609 CEEarthquake — Peru (M 8.6)
  42. 42.887 CEEarthquake — Japan, Nankaido (Ms 8.6)
  43. 43.869 CEEarthquake — Japan, Sanriku (Ms 8.6)
  44. 44.1755 CEEarthquake — Portugal, Lisbon (Mw 8.5)· 50,000 deaths
  45. 45.1668 CEEarthquake — China, Shandong Province (Ms 8.5)· 42,578 deaths
  46. 46.1868 CEEarthquake — Chile, Arica (Ms 8.5)· 25,000 deaths
  47. 47.1687 CEEarthquake — Peru, Lima (Ms 8.5)· 5,000 deaths
  48. 48.1575 CEEarthquake — Chile, Valdivia (Ms 8.5)· 1,321 deaths
  49. 49.1861 CEEarthquake — Indonesia, Lagundi, Simuk, Tello I (Ms 8.5)· 1,105 deaths
  50. 50.1647 CEEarthquake — Chile, Santiago (Ms 8.5)· 1,000 deaths
  51. 51.1922 CEEarthquake — Chile, Atacama (Mw 8.5)· 700 deaths
  52. 52.1604 CEEarthquake — Peru, Arequipa, Chile: Arica (Ms 8.5)· 174 deaths
  53. 53.1822 CEEarthquake — Chile, Valparaiso, Quillota, Concon, Aconcagua (Ms 8.5)· 72 deaths
  54. 54.1751 CEEarthquake — Chile, Concepcion, Chillan, Talca, Tutuben, Curico (Ms 8.5)· 65 deaths
  55. 55.1761 CEEarthquake — Portugal, Lisbon, Porto (Ms 8.5)· 25 deaths
  56. 56.1586 CEEarthquake — Peru, Lima (M 8.5)· 22 deaths
  57. 57.1837 CEEarthquake — Chile, Valdivia (Ms 8.5)· 16 deaths
  58. 58.1963 CEEarthquake — Russia, Kuril Islands (Mw 8.5)
  59. 59.1963 CEEarthquake — 1963 Kuril Islands Earthquake (Mw 8.5)
  60. 60.1938 CEEarthquake — 1938 Banda Sea Earthquake (Mw 8.5)
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