Earthquakes near Gilgit through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 76,213 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 6 here, back to 1943. NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 76,565 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.6 on January 19, 2026 (49 km NNW of Barishal, Pakistan). NOAA’s record here begins on September 3, 1972 with an earthquake (42 km SW of Gahkuch, Pakistan).

• January 19, 2026Earthquake · M 5.649 km NNW of Barishal, Pakistan · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
• October 8, 2005Earthquake · M 7.6Muzaffarabad, Uri, Anantnag, Baramula · 76,213 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• September 3, 1972Earthquake · M 6.242 km SW of Gahkuch, Pakistan · 100 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
• September 24, 1943Earthquake · M 6.335 km NW of Gahkuch, PakistanUSGS

• An event counts for Gilgit 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