Bago

Earthquakes near Bago through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 3 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Bago, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7.5 on December 3, 1930 (36 km SSW of Pyu, Myanmar).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Bago in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.4 on May 5, 1930 (41 km SW of Nyaunglebin, Myanmar), for which NOAA records 500 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 5 here, back to 1588. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 538 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.1 on March 13, 2017 (36 km SE of Tharyarwady, Myanmar). NOAA’s record here begins in 1588 with an earthquake (Pegu). NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Bago. The highest water NOAA records here was 1.06 m, on May 5, 1930. The deadliest, on May 5, 1930, killed 500 people here by NOAA’s runup records.

The events

  • March 13, 2017Earthquake · M 5.136 km SE of Tharyarwady, Myanmar · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • December 3, 1930Earthquake · M 7.536 km SSW of Pyu, Myanmar · 36 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 5, 1930Earthquake · M 7.441 km SW of Nyaunglebin, Myanmar · 500 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 5, 1930Tsunami · 1.06 m hereMyanmar Coast · 500 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • 1588EarthquakePeguNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Bago 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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