Earthquakes near Al Ḩudaydah through history
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Al Ḩudaydah from 1900 to October 19, 2026. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 4 within 100 km of Al Ḩudaydah, back to 1072.
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Al Ḩudaydah in the last 30 days.
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake in 1358 (Zabid,Sana,Adan), for which NOAA records 61 deaths. NOAA records deaths in 4 of the events here, 181 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is an earthquake in 1463 (Zabid). NOAA’s record here begins in 1072 with an earthquake (Sana, Zabid; Saudi Arabia: Mecca). NOAA lists one significant eruption of one volcano within 100 km of Al Ḩudaydah.
The events
Good to know
- An event counts for Al Ḩudaydah when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
- USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
- NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
- Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
- A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
- Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history