Muzaffarābād

Earthquakes near Muzaffarābād, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 3 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Muzaffarābād, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. One stands far above the rest: a magnitude 7.6 on October 8, 2005 (Muzaffarabad, Uri, Anantnag, Baramula). The next strongest reached 6.4.

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 76,213 deaths for it. 10 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 81,543 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.1 on August 20, 2024 (8 km SW of Bāramūla, India). NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Muzaffarābād.

The events

  • August 20, 2024Earthquake · M 5.18 km SW of Bāramūla, India · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • October 8, 2005Earthquake · M 7.6Muzaffarabad, Uri, Anantnag, Baramula · 76,213 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 8, 2005Earthquake · M 6.49 km NE of Battagram, PakistanUSGS
  • December 28, 1974TsunamiPakistanNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Muzaffarābād 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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