Earthquakes near Nador through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 628 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 10 here, back to 1579. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 629 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.3 on January 25, 2016 (49 km NNE of Al Hoceïma, Morocco). NOAA’s record here begins in 1579 with an earthquake (Melilla). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Nador. The highest of them reached 0.02 m, on January 25, 2016.

• January 25, 2016Earthquake · M 6.349 km NNE of Al Hoceïma, Morocco · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• January 25, 2016Tsunami · 0.02 m highMoroccoNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• February 24, 2004Earthquake · M 6.411 km SSW of Tirhanimîne, Morocco · 628 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• 1579EarthquakeMelillaNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Nador 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history