Ljubljana

Earthquakes near Ljubljana through history

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Ljubljana from 1900 to October 19, 2026. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 28 within 100 km of Ljubljana, back to AD 567.

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was an estimated magnitude 6.5 on March 26, 1511 (Slovenia: Idrija,Skofja Loka). The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake on January 25, 1348 (Villach; Italy:Veneto; Slovenia:Celovac), for which NOAA records 5,000 deaths. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 8,044 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.2 on July 12, 2004 (Bovec, Kobarid). NOAA’s record here begins in AD 567 with an earthquake (Slovenia). It grows thinner going back: 6 of the 28 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 3 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Ljubljana.

The events

  • July 12, 2004Earthquake · M 5.2Bovec, Kobarid · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • April 14, 1895Earthquake · M 6.1 (est.)Slovenia: Ljubljana · 7 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • March 26, 1511Earthquake · M 6.5 (est.)Slovenia: Idrija,Skofja Loka · 15 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • January 25, 1348EarthquakeVillach; Italy:Veneto; Slovenia:Celovac · 5,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • January 25, 1348TsunamiGulf Of VeniceNOAA NCEI
  • AD 567EarthquakeSloveniaNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Ljubljana 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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