Earthquakes near Andong, 1927–2026

The strongest was a magnitude 5.5 on November 15, 2017 (7 km SW of Heunghae, South Korea). The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.4 on September 12, 2016 (Gyeongju), for which NOAA records one death. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 2 in all. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Andong, and 2 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 2.57 m, on July 12, 1993.

• November 15, 2017Earthquake · M 5.57 km SW of Heunghae, South KoreaUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• September 12, 2016Earthquake · M 5.4Gyeongju · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• July 12, 1993Tsunami · 2.57 m hereSea Of JapanNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Andong 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.

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