# List of historical earthquakes

Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings — later followed by discoveries of Earth's tectonic plates, seismotomography imaging technique, observations using space satellites from outer space, artificial intelligence (AI)-based earthquake warning systems — they rely mainly on the analysis of written sources, observations of shaking objects and/or animal behavior during earthquakes, religious/traditional beliefs about earthquakes (e.g. "God's punishment", "God's rage", "Earth never quiet", "Earth's rage" or "Mother Nature's rage"). There is often significant uncertainty and hypothesis in locations and magnitudes — sometimes dates for each earthquakes. The number of fatalities is also often highly uncertain and hypothetical, particularly for the older events.

## Pre-11th century

| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat | Long | Fatalities | Mag. | Comments | Sources |
| 1920 BC | | Qinghai Jishi Gorge outburst flood | | | | | Flood caused by landslide after earthquake | |
| 1740 BC | | Fa of Xia Mount Tai earthquake | N 34.2705° | E 108.92512° | ? | ? | Listed in the Bamboo Annals | |
| 479 BC | | Aegean Sea 479 BC Potidaea earthquake | N 39.7° | E 23.3° | Many | 7.0 (approx) | Oldest record of a tsunami. Saved Potidaea from an invasion by the Achaemenid Empire. | |
| 464 BC | | Sparta, Greece 464 BC Sparta earthquake | | | ? | 7.2 (approx) | M$_s$ Led to a helot uprising and strained relations with Athens, one of the factors that led to the Peloponnesian War | |
| 373 BC | | Gulf of Corinth, Greece | | | | | Destroyed ancient city of Helike by Tsunami | |
| 226 BC | | Rhodes, Greece 226 BC Rhodes earthquake | | | ? | – | Destroyed Colossus of Rhodes and city of Kameiros | |
| 60 BC | | Portugal and Galicia coasts | | | ? | 8.5 | Caused a tsunami | |
| 17 AD | At night | Asia minor AD 17 Lydia earthquake | 37.85 | 27.3 | ? | | Destroyed 13 cities in Asia (minor) | Described by the historians Tacitus and Pliny the Elder |
| February 5, 62 AD | | Bay of Naples, Italy AD 62 Pompeii earthquake | | | ? | 5–6 | Brought down a large part of Pompeii, caused severe damage in Herculaneum and Nuceria. | Seneca describes it in his "Quaestiones Naturales VI" |
| 89 AD | | Baekje, Seoul, Korea | | | Lots of people | 6.7 | Houses were broken and lots of people died. | |
| 110 AD | | Dian Kingdom, Yunnan, southwestern China | | | probably thousands | – | Flooded administrative centre of the Dian Kingdom | |
| December 13, 115 AD | | Antioch 115 Antioch earthquake | 36.1 | 36.1 | 260,000 (approx) | 7.5 | M$_s$ | |
| 141 or 142 AD | | Lycia, Caria, Dodecanese 141 Lycia earthquake | 36.7 | 28.0 | ? | 8 | Triggered a severe tsunami that caused inundation at Rhodes | |
| May 18, 363 AD | | Syria 363 Galilee earthquake | | | "thousands" | 7 (approx) | Destruction also in "The Holy Land", Petra | Ammianus Marcellinus and numerous other late Antiquity writers. |
| July 21, 365 AD | | Crete (Greece) 365 Crete earthquake | | | "thousands" | 8.5+ | Destruction also in Cyrene & Alexandria (by tsunami). Uplifted Crete by 9 metres. | Ammianus Marcellinus and numerous other late Antiquity writers |
| 382 AD | | Cape St. Vincent, Portugal | | | | 7.5 | According to Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, the earthquake and corresponding tsunami sank two islets that were situated near Cape St. Vincent. | Ammianus Marcellinus |
| May 19, 526 AD | | Antioch, Turkey 526 Antioch earthquake | | | 250,000 | 7.0 | The city of Antioch was greatly damaged, and some decades later the city's population was just 300,000. | Procopius, II.14.6; sources based on John of Ephesus |
| July 6, 551 AD | | Beirut, Tyre, Tripoli 551 Beirut earthquake | 33.9 | 35.5 | 30,000 | 7.5 | M$_w$ Triggered a devastating tsunami, all the cities of the Phoenician coast from Tyre to Tripoli were reduced to ruins | |
| November 26, 684 AD | | Shikoku, Japan 684 Hakuhō earthquake | 32.8 | 134.3 | 101–1,000 | 8.4 M$_K$ (Kawasumi scale) | Various references estimate the quake's magnitude at 8.0 to 8.4, with damage being "severe". Other dates for the quake are: October 14 (incorrect date) and November 24. | Described in the history book Nihon Shoki |
| January 18, 749 AD | | The Levant 749 Galilee earthquake | | | "tens of thousands" | 7.0–7.5 (approx) | The cities of Tiberias, Beit She'an, Hippos and Pella were largely destroyed while many other cities across the Levant region were heavily damaged. | |
| April 29, 801 AD | | Central Italy 801 Apennine earthquake | 41.896 | 12.482 | | 5.4 M$_e$ | There was severe damage in Rome. The quake was also felt in Spoleto. | |
| November 24, 847 AD | | Damascus, Syria 847 Damascus earthquake | 33.5 | 36.3 | 70,000 | 7.3 | | |
| December 856 AD | | Corinth, Greece | 37.9 | 22.9 | 45,000 | – | | |
| December 22, 856 AD (aftershocks for about a year) | | Qumis, Iran. From Khuvar to Bustam and Gurgan. The town of Qumis (Hecatompylos) hardest hit. 856 Damghan earthquake | 36.23 | 54.14 | 200,000 | 7.9 (approx) | The city of Qumis was half destroyed and had 45,096 casualties. | |
| July 13, 869 AD | | Sendai, Japan 869 Jōgan earthquake | 38.5 | 143.8 | 1,000 (approx) | 8.6–9.0 M$_w$ | | |
| March 23, 893 AD | | Ardabil, Iran 893 Ardabil earthquake | 38.28 | 48.30 | 150,000 | – | – | Regarded as a 'fake earthquake', due to misunderstanding of original Armenian sources for the 893 Dvin event. |
| December 28, 893 AD | | Dvin, Armenia 893 Dvin earthquake | 40.0 | 44.6 | 30,000 | 6 (approx) | Mislocated in India | |

## 11th–16th centuries

| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat | Long | Fatalities | Mag. | Comments | Sources |
| December 1033 | | Jordan Valley, Levant, Israel & the State of Palestine 1033 Jordan Valley earthquake | 32.5 | 35.5 | 70,000 | 7.3 | M$_w$ . Triggered a tsunami. | |
| December 1037 | | Taizhou, Jiangsu, China | 32.0 | 119.0 | 22,391 | | | |
| August 12, 1042 | | Palmyra, Baalbek, Syria, Lebanon | 35.1 | 38.9 | 50,000 | 7.2 (>VIII) | | |
| March 18, 1068 | | Near East 1068 Near East earthquake | | | 20,000 | ≥7.0 | | |
| October 11, 1138 | | Aleppo, Syria 1138 Aleppo earthquake | 36.1 | 36.8 | 230,000 | 7.1 | | |
| September 30, 1139 | | Ganja, Azerbaijan 1139 Ganja earthquake | 40.3 | 46.2 | 230,000–300,000 | 7.7 | M$_s$ . Resulted in the total destruction of Ganja. | |
| August 12, 1157 | 08:15 | Hama, Syria 1157 Hama earthquake | 35.1 | 36.3 | 8,000 | 7.2 | M$_s$ Largest in a sequence lasting from late 1156 to early 1159 | |
| February 4, 1169 | | Sicily 1169 Sicily earthquake | 37.3 | 15.0 | 15,000 | 6.4–7.3 | | |
| June 29, 1170 | 06:29 | Eastern Mediterranean 1170 Syria earthquake | 34.4 | 36.4 | 5,000–80,000 in Aleppo 25,000 in Hama | 7.3–7.5 7.7 | Syria, Lebanon, central southern Turkey | Numerous sources from Crusader times. |
| July 5, 1201 and/or May 20, 1202 | | Eastern Mediterranean; 1202 Syria earthquake | | | 1,100,000 (includes famine/disease deaths) | 7.6 | Damage across a wide area from Syria to Upper Egypt | – |
| May 11, 1222 | 06:15 | Cyprus 1222 Cyprus earthquake | 34.7 | 32.6 | | 7.0–7.5 | Caused damage at Paphos, Limassol and Nicosia | |
| 1269 | | Cilicia, Anatolia (Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia) 1269 Cilicia earthquake | 37.5 | 35.5 | 60,000 | 7 (approx) | | |
| September 27, 1290 | | Zhili (Hebei), China 1290 Zhili earthquake | 41.5 | 119.3 | 100,000 | 6.8 | M$_s$ | |
| May 26, 1293 | | Kamakura, (now in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kantō region,) Japan 1293 Kamakura earthquake | 35.2 | 139.4 | 23,024 | 7.1 | | |
| August 8, 1303 | 06:00 | 1303 Crete earthquake, Greece | 35 | 27 | up to 10,000 | ~8 | Triggered a major tsunami that devastated Alexandria in Egypt | |
| September 25, 1303 | | 1303 Hongdong earthquake, China | 36.3 | 111.7 | 270,000 | M$_w$  7.2–7.6 | Taiyuan and Pingyang (modern Linfen) were leveled. | |
| January 1, 1341 | | Crimea, Ukraine | | | Not known | 6 | | |
| January 25, 1348 | 15:00 | Friuli, Venice, Rome 1348 Friuli earthquake | 46.37 | 13.58 | 10,000 | 6.9 | | |
| August 24, 1356 | | Lisbon, Portugal 1356 Lisbon earthquake | | | | 8.5 | M$_w$ | |
| October 18, 1356 | | Basel, Switzerland 1356 Basel earthquake | 47.5 | 07.6 | 1,000 | 6.2 | M$_w$ | |
| May 21, 1382 | | Canterbury, UK 1382 Dover Straits earthquake | | | ? | 5.8 | Struck during synod – later called "Earthquake Synod" – called to condemn heresy of John Wycliffe – some saw as portentous | |
| February 2, 1428 | | Catalonia (now Spain) 1428 Catalonia earthquake | 42.4 | 2.2 | 1,000s | 6.7 | Sometimes called the terratrèmol de la candelera because it took place during the Candlemas. | |
| December 5, 1456 | | Province of Benevento, Kingdom of Naples (now Italy) 1456 Central Italy earthquakes | 41.3 | 14.7 | 30,000–70,000 | 7.2 | The largest and most widespread earthquake on the Italian Peninsula. Was followed by another M$_w$  7.0 shock on December 30. | |
| May 3, 1481 | 03:00 | Rhodes 1481 Rhodes earthquake | 36.0 | 28.0 | 30,000 | 7.1 | Largest of a series that lasted 10 months | |
| September 20, 1498 | 08:00 local time | Honshu 1498 Meiō earthquake | 34.0 | 138.1 | 31,000 | 8.6 | M$_s$ | |
| June 6, 1505 | | Nepal 1505 Lo Mustang earthquake | 29.5 | 83.0 | 30% of Nepalese population | 8.2–8.8 | | |
| September 10, 1509 | 22:00 | Istanbul, Turkey 1509 Constantinople earthquake | 40.9 | 28.7 | 10,000 | 7.2 | M$_s$ | |
| January 26, 1531 | 04:30 | Lisbon, Portugal 1531 Lisbon earthquake | 38.9 | −09.0 | 30,000 | 6.9 | | |
| January 23, 1556 | | Shaanxi, China 1556 Shaanxi earthquake | 34.5 | 109.7 | 830,000+ | 8.2–8.3 | Deadliest earthquake in recorded history | USGS |
| November 16–17, 1570 | 19:10 | Ferrara, Italy 1570 Ferrara earthquake | 44.817 | 11.633 | 70–200 | 5.5 | | Azariah de Rossi's Kol Elohim |
| December 16, 1575 | 18:30 | Valdivia, Chile 1575 Valdivia earthquake | −39.8 | −73.2 | ? | 8.5 | | |
| June 10–11, 1585 | Unk | Aleutian Islands, Alaska 1585 Aleutian Islands earthquake | Unk | Unk | Unk | 9.25 | M$_w$ On June 11, 1585, a moderate tsunami struck the Sanriku coast of Japan. At the same time, a number of Hawaiian natives died after their settlements was struck by a tsunami-like event described in oral traditions. Paleotsunami evidence was also found in the Hawaiian Islands corresponding to a large tsunami in the 16th century. Modelling of a magnitude 9.25 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands matched the descriptions and geological evidences in Japan and Hawaii. | |
| January 18, 1586 | 23:00 | Chūbu region, Japan 1586 Tenshō earthquake | 36.0 | 136.9 | 8,000 | 7.9 | M$_{JMA}$ | |

## 17th century

| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat | Long | Fatalities | Mag. | Comments | Sources |
| November 24, 1604 | 12:30 local time | Arica, Chile 1604 Arica earthquake | -18.500 | -70.400 | ? | 8.5 | M$_I$ | |
| February 3, 1605 | 20:00 local time | Shikoku, Honshu, Japan 1605 Keichō earthquake | 33.5 | 138.5 | thousands | 7.9 | M$_s$ | |
| July 13, 1605 | | Qiongshan, Hainan, China 1605 Guangdong earthquake | 19.9 | 110.5 | 3,000 | 7.5 (X) | | |
| December 11, 1611 | 10:30 | Sanriku, Japan 1611 Sanriku earthquake | 39.0 | 144.4 | ~5,000 | 8.1 | M$_s$ | |
| October 25, 1622 | | Ningxia, China 1622 North Guyuan earthquake | 36.5 | 106.3 | 12,000 | 7.0 | M$_s$ | |
| May 11, 1624 | 03:00–04:00 | Fez, Morocco 1624 Fez earthquake | 34.1 | -5.1 | thousands | 6.0 | M$_w$ | |
| August 1, 1629 | | Banda Sea, Indonesia 1629 Banda Sea earthquake | -4.6 | 129.9 | 0 | 8.2-8.8 | M$_w$ | |
| March 27, 1638 | | Calabria, Kingdom of Sicily (present-day Italy) 1638 Calabrian earthquakes | 38.64 | 15.78 | 9,581–30,000 | 7.1 | A sequence of four earthquakes. | |
| March 27, 1638 | night | Tabriz, Iran 1641 Tabriz earthquake | 37.9 | 46.1 | 12,613–30,000 | 6.8 | M$_s$ | |
| February 5, 1663 | 17:30 local time | Quebec, Canada 1663 Charlevoix earthquake | 47.6 | 70.1 | 0 | 7.3–7.9 | Landslides were the primary feature. | |
| April 6, 1667 | | Dubrovnik, Croatia 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake | 42.3 | 18.1 | 3,000 | 7.2 | | |
| November 25, 1667 | | Shamakhi, Azerbaijan 1667 Shamakhi earthquake | 40.6 | 48.6 | 80,000 | 6.9 | M$_s$ | |
| July 25, 1668 | | Shandong, China 1668 Shandong earthquake | 35.3 | 118.6 | 42,578 | 8.5 | Largest earthquake in East China. | |
| August 17, 1668 | | Anatolia, Turkey 1668 North Anatolia earthquake | 40 | 36 | 8,000 | 8 | Largest earthquake in Turkey. | USGS |
| February 17, 1674 | 19:30 | Ambon, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) 1674 Ambon earthquake and megatsunami | 3.75 | 127.75 | 2,347 | 6.8 | Major tsunami up to 100 meters high. First and largest ever documented tsunami in Indonesia. | |
| November 4, 1677 | 20:00 | Bōsō Peninsula, Japan 1677 Bōsō earthquake | 35.0 | 141.5 | 569 | 8.3–8.6 | M$_w$ | |
| October 20, 1687 | 11:30 | Lima, Peru 1687 Peru earthquake | −15.2 | −75.9 | 5,000 | 8.2 | | |
| June 5, 1688 | | Province of Benevento, Italy 1688 Sannio earthquake | 41.3 | 14.6 | est. 10,000 | 7 | Completely destroyed Cerreto Sannita and Guardia Sanframondi, heavily damaged Benevento. | |
| September 13, 1692 | 11:00 | Salta Province, Argentina 1692 Salta earthquake | −25.40 | −64.80 | ~13 | 7.0 | The small village of Talavera del Esteco was completely destroyed. | |
| June 7, 1692 | 11:43 local time | Port Royal, Jamaica 1692 Jamaica earthquake | 17.9 | −76.8 | 2,000+ | 7 (approx) (X) | | |
| January 11, 1693 | | Catania Province, Sicily 1693 Sicily earthquake | | | 60,000 | 7.5 | | |
| September 5, 1694 | 11:40 | Irpinia, Italy 1694 Irpinia–Basilicata earthquake | 40.88 | 15.35 | 6,000 | 6.9 | M$_w$ | |
| May 18, 1695 | 12:00 | Shanxi, Qing dynasty 1695 Linfen earthquake | 36.0 | 111.5 | 52,600–176,365 | 7.8 | M$_w$ | |
| January 5, 1699 | | Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia) 1699 Java earthquake | 6.078 | 105.913 | 128 | 7.4–8.0 | M$_w$ | |

## 18th century

| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat | Long | Fatalities | Mag. | Comments | Sources |
| January 26, 1700 | ~21:00 | Cascadia subduction zone 1700 Cascadia earthquake Source of "Orphan Tsunami," which struck Japan hours later. The Japanese were caught off-guard, not knowing the origin of the wave, until geologist Brian Atwater's research confirmed it. | | | | 9.0 | M (Satake et al., 1996) | USGS |
| January 14, 1703 | 18:00 | Norcia, Italy 1703 Apennine earthquakes | 42.7 | 13.07 | 6,240–9,761 | 6.7 | M$_w$ | |
| February 2, 1703 | 11:05 | L'Aquila, Italy 1703 Apennine earthquakes | 42.43 | 13.3 | 2,500–5,000 | 6.7 | M$_w$ | |
| December 31, 1703 | 17:00 | Kantō region, Japan 1703 Genroku earthquake | 35.0 | 140.0 | 10,000 | 8.2 | M$_s$ | |
| November 3, 1706 | 13:00 | Abruzzo, Italy 1706 Abruzzo earthquake | 42.1 | 14.1 | 2,400 | 6.8 | M$_w$ | |
| October 28, 1707 | 14:00 local time | Japan 1707 Hōei earthquake | 33.0 | 136.0 | 5,000+ | 8.6 | | |
| October 14, 1709 | | Zhongwei, China 1709 Zhongwei earthquake | 37.4 | 105.3 | 2,000+ | 7.5 | M$_w$ | |
| February 3, 1716 | | Algiers, Algeria 1716 Algiers earthquake | 36.8 | 3.0 | 20,000 | | IX–X European macroseismic scale | |
| June 19, 1718 | | Gansu, China 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake | 35.0 | 105.2 | 73,000 | 7.5 | M$_s$ | |
| April 26, 1721 | | Tabriz, Iran 1721 Tabriz earthquake | 37.9 | 46.7 | ~80,000 | 7.7 | | |
| July 8, 1730 | 08:45 | Valparaíso, Chile 1730 Valparaíso earthquake | −32.5 | −71.5 | ? | 8.7 | | |
| September 30, 1730 | 10:00 local time | Beijing, China | 40.0 | 116.2 | 100s | 6.5 | | |
| November 29, 1732 | 8:40 local time | Irpinia, Italy 1732 Irpinia earthquake | 41.0727 | 15.0623 | | 6.6 | M$_s$ | |
| October 16, 1737 | 15:30 local time | Kamchatka, Russia 1737 Kamchatka earthquake | 51.1 | 158.0 | | 8.3 | M$_s$ | |
| January 4, 1739 | 18:00 UTC | Ningxia, China 1739 Yinchuan–Pingluo earthquake | 38.9 | 106.5 | >50,000 | 8.0 | | |
| October 28, 1746 | 22:30 local time | Lima & Callao, Peru 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake | −11.35 | −77.28 | 4,000–5,000 | 8.6–8.8 | M$_w$ | |
| May 25, 1751 | 1:00 local time | Concepción, Chile 1751 Concepción earthquake | −36.830 | −73.030 | | 8.5 | M$_I$ | USGS |
| June 7, 1755 | | Northern Persia | 34.0 | 51.5 | 1,200 40,000 | 5.9 | | |
| November 1, 1755 | 10:16 | Lisbon, Portugal 1755 Lisbon earthquake | 36 | −11 | 80,000 | 8.5 | Caused a huge tsunami | USGS |
| November 18, 1755 | 09:11 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States 1755 Cape Ann earthquake | 42.7 | −70.2 | 0 | 5.9 | M$_w$ | |
| November 27, 1755 | | Fez and Meknes, Morocco 1755 Meknes earthquake | 34 | −5 | 15,000 | 6.5–7.0 | M$_w$ | |
| November 25, 1759 | 19:23 local time | Eastern Mediterranean 1759 Near East earthquakes | 33.7 | 35.9 | 1,000s | 7.4 | M$_s$ Earthquake in same area on October 30 considered to be a foreshock. | |
| March 31, 1761 | 13:01 local time | Lisbon, Portugal 1761 Lisbon earthquake | 34.5 | 13.0 | Unknown | 8.5 | M$_s$ Second major earthquake in Europe in six years. | |
| April 2, 1762 | | Northeastern Bay of Bengal 1762 Arakan earthquake | 22.0 | 92.0 | 200 | up to 8.8 | M$_w$ | |
| June 28, 1763 | 05:28 | Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary 1763 Komárom earthquake | 47.73 | 18.15 | 83 | 6.2–6.5 | M$_w$ | |
| May 22, 1766 | 05:10 | Istanbul, Turkey 1766 Istanbul earthquake | 40.8 | 29.0 | 4,000 | 7.1 | M$_s$ | |
| October 21, 1766 | 04:30 local time | Saint Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela 1766 Southeastern Caribbean earthquake | 11.0 | −62.5 | | 6.5–7.5 | M$_s$  Destroyed Spanish colonial capital of San Jose, Trinidad (now St. Joseph). | |
| June 3, 1770 | 19:15 local time | Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake | 18.7 | −72.63 | 200+ | 7.5 | M$_w$ | |
| July 29, 1773 | | Guatemala 1773 Guatemala earthquake | 14.6 | -90.7 | 5–600 | 7.5 | | |
| January 8, 1780 | | Tabriz, Iran 1780 Tabriz earthquake | 38.0 | 46.2 | 40,000–200,000 | 7.4 | M$_s$ | |
| February 4–5, 1783; March 28, 1783 | 12:00 | Calabria, Italy 1783 Calabrian earthquakes | 38.15 | 15.70 | 35,000 | 6.9 | M$_w$ First in a sequence of five earthquakes M$_w$ ≥ 5.9 to hit Calabria in less than two months. | |
| June 1, 1786 | 04:00 local time | Sichuan, China 1786 Kangding-Luding earthquake | 29.9 | 102.0 | ~100,000 | 7.75 | M$_w$ Triggered a landslide that blocked the Dadu river – the collapse of the dam during an aftershock and subsequent flood caused most of the casualties. | |
| March 28, 1787 | 11:30 local time | Oaxaca, Mexico 1787 New Spain earthquake | 16.5 | -98.5 | 11+ | 8.6 | M$_w$ | |
| February 4, 1797 | 12:30 | Quito, Ecuador & Cuzco, Peru 1797 Riobamba earthquake | | | 41,000 | 7.3 | M$_w$ | |
| February 10, 1797 | | Sumatra, East Indies (now Indonesia) 1797 Sumatra earthquake | −1.0 | 99.0 | 300 | 8.4 | | |

## 19th century

| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat | Long | Fatalities | Mag. | Comments | Sources |
| October 26, 1802 | 10:55 | Vrancea region, Moldavia, now Romania 1802 Vrancea earthquake | 45.7 | 26.6 | 3 in Bucharest | 7.9 | Serious damage in the area. All church steeples in Bucharest collapsed, as well as many houses and Colţea bell tower. | |
| February 16, 1810 | 22:15 | Crete, Heraklion 1810 Crete earthquake | 35.5 | 25.6 | 2,000 | 7.5 | M$_w$ | |
| December 16, 1811 | 08:00 | New Madrid, Missouri, United States 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes | 36.6 | −89.6 | | 8.1 | M$_I$ | USGS |
| January 23, 1812 | 15:00 | New Madrid, Missouri, United States 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes | 36.6 | −89.6 | | 7.8 | M$_I$ | USGS |
| February 7, 1812 | 09:45 | New Madrid, Missouri, United States 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes | 36.6 | −89.6 | | 8 | M$_I$ (Johnston, 1996) | USGS |
| March 26, 1812 | 16:37 | Caracas, La Guaira, El Tocuyo, San Felipe, Barquisimeto, Mérida, La Victoria, Valencia, Venezuela 1812 Caracas earthquake | | | 15,000–20,000 | 7.7–8.0 | | |
| December 8, 1812 | 7:00 a.m. local time | Alta California 1812 San Juan Capistrano earthquake | | | 40 | 6.9–7.5 | Destroyed the "Great Stone Church" at Mission San Juan Capistrano | |
| December 21, 1812 | 11:00 a.m. local time | Santa Barbara Channel, California, United States 1812 Ventura earthquake | 34.12 | −119.54 | 1–2 | 7.1–7.5 | Destroyed the church at Mission Santa Barbara, caused near-total destruction at Mission La Purísima Concepción, and considerable damage at Mission Santa Inés | Southern California Earthquake Data Center |
| June 16, 1819 | 18:45–18:50 local time | Gujarat, India 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake | 23.0 | 71.0 | >1,543 | 7.7–8.2 | M$_w$ Formed an 80 km long ridge, the Allah Bund ('Dam of God') | |
| June 2, 1823 | 08:00 | south flank of Kīlauea, Hawaii, Kingdom of Hawaii | 19.3 | −155 | | 7 | M$_I$ (Klein and Wright, 2000) | USGS |
| June, 1833 | | Kodiak Island, Ukamok Island, Tugidak Island, Barren Islands, Nushagak, Nuchek | | | | | | |
| August 26, 1833 | | Himalayas, Nepal–India–Tibet region 1833 Bihar–Nepal earthquake | 28.3 | 85.5 | ~500 | 7.7–7.9 | M$_w$ | |
| November 25, 1833 | | Sumatra, East Indies (now Indonesia) 1833 Sumatra earthquake | −2.5 | 100.5 | "numerous victims" | 8.8–9.2 | M$_w$ Huge tsunami flooded all southern part of western Sumatra | |
| June 10, 1836 | 15:30 | south San Francisco Bay region, California, Mexico (now United States) | 36.9 | −121.5 | | 6.5 | M$_I$(Bakun, 1999) Reports probably refer to the 1838 San Andreas earthquake, misreported in 1868 following the Hayward earthquake of that year | USGS, |
| January 1, 1837 | 16:00 local time | Galilee, Palestine 1837 Galilee earthquake | 33.0 | 35.5 | 6,000–7,000 | >7.0 | M$_s$ | |
| June 1838 | | San Francisco Peninsula, California, Mexico (now United States) 1838 San Andreas earthquake | 37.3 | −123.2 | | 6.8 | M$_I$ (Bakun, 1999) | USGS |
| January 11, 1839 | 06:00 local time | Offshore Martinique, France 1839 Martinique earthquake | 14.5 | –60.5 | 700–4,000 | 7.8–8.0 | Severe damage in Martinique, and felt throughout most of the Lesser Antilles | |
| March 23, 1839 | 04:00 | Inwa, Kingdom of Burma (present day Myanmar) 1839 Ava earthquake | 21.9 | 96.0 | 300–500 | 8.1–8.2 | Destroyed the city of Amarapura, Mandalay and the former capital Inwa. | |
| January 5, 1843 | 02:45 | Marked Tree, Arkansas, United States | 35.5 | −90.5 | | 6.3 | M$_I$(Johnston, 1996) | USGS |
| February 8, 1843 | 10:37 local time | Guadeloupe, France 1843 Guadeloupe earthquake | 16.5 | 62.2 | 1,500–5,000 | 8.5 | | |
| May 8, 1847 | | Around Zenkō-ji Temple, (now in Nagano Prefecture, Chūbu region,) Japan 1847 Zenkoji earthquake | 36.7 | 138.2 | >8,600 | 7.4 | 2,094 houses lost by fire with quake at Nagano. | |
| November 26, 1852 | | Banda Sea, Dutch East Indies 1852 Banda Sea earthquake | 5.24 | 129.75 | 60+ | 7.5–8.8 | M$_w$  Major tsunami. | |
| December 23, 1854 | 09:00 | Honshu, Japan 1854 Tōkai earthquake | 34.0 | 137.8 | 2,000 | 8.4 | Major tsunami. | |
| December 24, 1854 | 16:00 | Honshu, Japan 1854 Nankai earthquake | 33.0 | 135.0 | thousands | 8.4 | Major tsunami | |
| January 23, 1855 | 21:11 local time | Wairarapa, New Zealand 1855 Wairarapa earthquake | −41.4 | 174.5 | 4 | 8.0 (approx) | Raised sections of Wellington coastline by 2 metres. | – |
| November 11, 1855 | 22:00 local time | Edo (now Tokyo, Kantō region), Japan 1855 Edo earthquake | 35.65 | 139.8 | ~ 7,000 | 7.0 | M$_s$ 10,000 houses destroyed in Edo. | 安政の大地震 in Japanese |
| October 12, 1856 | 02:38 or 02:24 local time | Crete-Rhodes, Greece (then the Ottoman Empire) 1856 Heraklion earthquake | 35.5 | 26.0 | 600+ | 7.7–8.3 M$_w$ | Widespread damage to Greece, Malta, Anatolia and the Middle East. | |
| January 9, 1857 | 16:24 | Fort Tejon, California, United States (San Andreas Fault from Parkfield to Wrightwood) 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake | | | 1 | 7.9 | M (Grant and Sieh, 1993; Stein and Hanks, 1998) | USGS |
| December 16, 1857 | 21:00 | Naples, Italy 1857 Basilicata earthquake | 40.3 | 16 | 11,000 | 6.9 | M$_I$ | USGS |
| February 16, 1861 | | Sumatra, East Indies (now Indonesia) 1861 Sumatra earthquake | 1.0 | 97,5 | 905 | 8.5 | Caused a major tsunami. | |
| March 20, 1861 | 20:36 | Mendoza Province, Argentina 1861 Mendoza earthquake | -32.9 | -68.9 | 5,235 | 7.2 | Strongest earthquake in Mendoza Province and proportional most deadly in Argentinean history. | INPRES |
| October 8, 1865 | 20:46 | San Jose, California, United States | 37.2 | −121.9 | | 6.5 | M$_I$ (Bakun, 1999) | USGS |
| April 14, 1867 | 14:30 | Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas 1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake | 39.2 | –96.3 | | 5.1 | M$_{fa}$ | |
| June 10, 1867 | 21:09 | Central Java, Dutch East Indies 1867 Java earthquake | -8.7 | 110.6 | 700 | 7.8 | M$_w$ | |
| November 18, 1867 | 18:45 | Anegada Passage, between the British Virgin Islands and Danish West Indies (present-day US Virgin Islands) 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami | 18.2 | –65.0 | ~30 | 7.3–7.5 | | NGDC |
| December 18, 1867 | 09:00 | New Taipei City, Taiwan 1867 Keelung earthquake | 25.34 | 121.91 | 580 | 7.0 | M$_w$ . Thought to be the only destructive tsunami (15 meters) in Taiwan. | |
| April 3, 1868 | 02:25 | Kau, southeast Hawaii, Hawaii, Kingdom of Hawaii 1868 Hawaii earthquake | 19.2 | −155.5 | 77 | 7.9 | M$_I$(Klein and Wright, 2000) | USGS |
| August 13, 1868 | 16:45 local time | Arica, Chile 1868 Arica earthquake | −18.500 | −70.350 | 25,000 | 8.5-9.3 | M$_w$, Okal et al. (2006) gives upper end magnitude | USGS |
| October 21, 1868 | 15:53 | Hayward, California, United States, Hayward Fault Zone 1868 Hayward earthquake | 37.7 | −122.1 | 30 | 6.8 | M$_I$ (Bakun, 1999) | USGS |
| February 20, 1871 | 08:42 | Molokai, Hawaii, Kingdom of Hawaii 1871 Lānaʻi earthquake | 21.2 | −156.9 | | 6.8 | M$_I$ (Klein and Wright, 2000) | USGS |
| March 26, 1872 | 10:30 | Owens Valley, California, United States 1872 Owens Valley earthquake | 36.5 | −118 | 27 | 7.6 | M (Beanland and Clark, 1994) | USGS |
| December 15, 1872 | 05:40 | North Cascades, Washington, United States 1872 North Cascades earthquake | 47.9 | −120.3 | | 7.3 | M$_I$ (Malone and Bor, 1979; Rogers et al., 1983) | USGS |
| May 10, 1877 | 21:16 local time | Iquique, Chile 1877 Iquique earthquake | −19.600 | −70.230 | 2,541 | 8.8 | M$_w$ | USGS |
| November 9, 1880 | 7:04 local time | Zagreb, Croatia 1880 Zagreb earthquake | 45.9 | 16.1 | 1 | 6.2 | M$_s$ | |
| April 3, 1881 | 11:30 | Chios, Çeşme, Alaçatı 1881 Chios earthquake | 38.25 | 26.25 | 7,866 | 6.5 | M$_w$ | |
| December 31, 1881 | 01:49 | India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake | 8.52 | 92.43 | 0 | 7.9 | M$_w$ | |
| September 7, 1882 | 3:50 local time | San Blas Islands, Panama 1882 Panama earthquake | 10.0 | 79.0 | 250 | 8.3 | M$_s$ Largest earthquake in Panamanian history | |
| December 25, 1884 | 09:18 | Andalusia, Spain 1884 Andalusian earthquake | -36.96 | 4.07 | 1,200 | 6.5 | M$_w$ | |
| August 27, 1886 | 21:32 | Filiatra, western Peloponnese, Greece 1886 Peloponnese earthquake | 37.1 | 21.5 | 600 | 7.5 | unknown | |
| August 31, 1886 | 02:51 | Charleston, South Carolina, United States 1886 Charleston earthquake | 32.9 | −80 | 60 | 7.3 | M$_I$(Johnston, 1996) Believed to be the largest earthquake ever to strike the east coast. | USGS |
| February 23, 1887 | 06:30 local time | Liguria, Italy 1887 Liguria earthquake | 43.78 | 8.07 | 600–3,000 | 6.3–7.5 | M$_w$  The earthquake caused severe damage along the Ligurian coast and caused the town of Bussana Vecchia to be abandoned. | |
| September 1, 1888 | 04:10 local time | North Canterbury, New Zealand 1888 North Canterbury earthquake | −42.6 | 172.4 | | 7.0–7.3 | First earthquake observed to be associated with mainly horizontal fault displacement. | – |
| July 28, 1889 | 23:40 | Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan 1889 Kumamoto earthquake | 32.8 | 130.7 | 20 | 6.3 | | |
| October 27, 1891 | 21:38 | Mino-Owari (Gifu-Aichi Prefectures), Tōkai region, Japan 1891 Mino–Owari earthquake | 35.6 | 136.6 | 7,273 | 8 | M$_S$ | USGS |
| April 19, 1892 | 10:50 | Vacaville, California, United States 1892 Vacaville–Winters earthquakes | 38.5 | −121.8 | 1 | 6.4 | M$_I$ (Bakun, 1999) | USGS |
| April 21, 1892 | 17:43 | Winters, California, United States 1892 Vacaville–Winters earthquakes | 38.6 | −122 | | 6.4 | M$_I$ (Bakun, 1999) | USGS |
| November 17, 1893 | 15:06 | Quchan, Iran 1893 Quchan earthquake | 37.2 | 58.4 | 18,000 | 6.6 | M$_s$ | |
| October 31, 1895 | 11:08 | Charleston, Missouri, United States 1895 Charleston earthquake | 37 | −89.4 | | 6.6 | M$_I$ (Johnston, 1996) | USGS |
| June 15, 1896 | 19:32 | Off the Pacific coast of Sanriku, Iwate Prefecture, Tōhoku region, Japan 1896 Sanriku earthquake | 39.5 | 144 | 22,000+ | 8.0–8.1 (approx) | M$_w$ | USGS |
| June 12, 1897 | 11:06 | Assam, India 1897 Assam earthquake | 26 | 91 | 1,500 | 8.3 | | USGS |
| September 21, 1897 | 05:12 | Mindanao, Philippines 1897 Mindanao earthquakes | 6.0 | 122.0 | 13 | 7.5 | M$_S$ | |
| September 4, 1899 | 00:22 | Cape Yakataga, Alaska, United States 1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes | 60 | -142 | | 7.9 | M$_S$ | USGS |
| September 10, 1899 | 21:41 | Yakutat Bay, Alaska, United States 1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes | 60 | −142 | | 8 | M$_S$ | USGS |
| September 20, 1899 | 04:00 | Ottoman Empire 1899 Aydın–Denizli earthquake | 37.9 | 28.1 | 1,117 | 7.1 | M$_w$ | NGDC |
| October 9, 1900 | 12:28 | Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States | 57.1 | −153.5 | | 7.7 | M$_S$ | USGS |
| October 28, 1900 | 09:11 | offshore Miranda, Venezuela 1900 San Narciso earthquake | 11.0 | −66.0 | 140 | 7.7 | M$_s$ | USGS |
Source for all events with 'USGS' labelled as the source United States Geological Survey (USGS) Note: Magnitudes are generally estimations from intensity data. When no magnitude was available, the maximum intensity, written as a Roman numeral from I to XII, is given.