El Progreso

Earthquakes near El Progreso through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 6 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of El Progreso, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7.7 on September 7, 1915 (12 km NW of Chalatenango, El Salvador).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.5 on February 4, 1976 (7 km N of Los Amates, Guatemala), for which NOAA records 23,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 7 here, back to 1820. NOAA records deaths in 4 of the events here, 23,011 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.4 on April 10, 2013 (Atlantida). NOAA’s record here begins on October 19, 1820 with an earthquake (Omoa, San Pedro Sula). 3 of the 7 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of El Progreso, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 5 m, on August 4, 1856.

The events

  • April 10, 2013Earthquake · M 5.4AtlantidaNOAA NCEI
  • February 4, 1976Earthquake · M 7.57 km N of Los Amates, Guatemala · 23,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • September 7, 1915Earthquake · M 7.712 km NW of Chalatenango, El Salvador · 7 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • August 4, 1856Tsunami · 5 m hereBay Of HondurasNOAA NCEI
  • October 19, 1820EarthquakeOmoa, San Pedro SulaNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for El Progreso 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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