Earthquakes near Mitrovicë through history

None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 6 on July 26, 1963 (0 km NE of Krušopek, North Macedonia). It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 1,070 deaths for it. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 1,073 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.1 on January 4, 2018 (9 km NW of Plav, Montenegro). NOAA’s record here begins on June 16, 1456 with an earthquake (Serbia). It grows thinner going back: 8 of the 10 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

• January 4, 2018Earthquake · M 5.19 km NW of Plav, MontenegroUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• May 18, 1980Earthquake · M 5.8SerbiaNOAA NCEI
• July 26, 1963Earthquake · M 6.00 km NE of Krušopek, North Macedonia · 1,070 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• June 16, 1456EarthquakeSerbiaNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Mitrovicë 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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