Huelva

Earthquakes near Huelva through history

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Huelva from 1900 to October 19, 2026. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 5 within 100 km of Huelva, back to AD 881.

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

One stands far above the rest: an estimated magnitude 7.5 on May 26, 881. The next strongest reached 4.4. The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake in November 1587 (Loule), for which NOAA records 170 deaths. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 2,135 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.4 on August 14, 1978. NOAA’s record here begins on May 26, 881 with an earthquake. NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Huelva, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 18.3 m, on November 1, 1755. The deadliest here came on November 1, 1755 from a magnitude 8.5 earthquake (Lisbon): NOAA’s runup records count 1,963 deaths within 100 km of Huelva.

The events

  • August 14, 1978Earthquake · M 4.4NOAA NCEI
  • November 1, 1755Tsunami · 18.3 m hereLisbon · 1,963 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 1587EarthquakeLoule · 170 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • May 26, 881Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Huelva 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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