Earthquakes near Kerman through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 3,000 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 11 here, back to 1864. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 6,304 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on December 1, 2017 (55 km NNE of Kerman, Iran). NOAA’s record here begins on January 17, 1864 with an earthquake (Kirman, Chatrud). 3 of the 11 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927.

• December 1, 2017Earthquake · M 6.155 km NNE of Kerman, IranUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• July 28, 1981Earthquake · M 7.175 km ESE of Kerman, Iran · 3,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• June 11, 1981Earthquake · M 6.773 km SE of Kerman, Iran · 1,400 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• January 17, 1864EarthquakeKirman, ChatrudNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Kerman 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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