Earthquakes near Naz̧arābād through history

The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake on July 15, 850 (Rey (Ray)), for which NOAA records 45,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 24 here, back to 401 BCE. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 117,763 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4 on December 26, 2017 (Alborz, Tehran). NOAA’s record here begins in 401 BCE with an earthquake (Rey,Eivan-E-Kay). It grows thinner going back: 5 of the 24 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Naz̧arābād.

• December 26, 2017Earthquake · M 4.0Alborz, Tehran · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
• April 20, 1608Earthquake · M 7.6 (est.)Gilan, W Mazandaran · 3,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
• April 20, 1608TsunamiCaspian SeaNOAA NCEI
• July 15, 850EarthquakeRey (Ray) · 45,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
• 401 BCEEarthquake · M 7.6 (est.)Rey,Eivan-E-KayNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Naz̧arābād 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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