Earthquakes near Nice, 1927–2026

2 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.6 on April 18, 1968 (Liguria). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Nice. The highest water NOAA records here was 3 m, on October 16, 1979. The deadliest, on October 16, 1979, killed one person here by NOAA’s runup records.

• October 16, 1979Tsunami · 3 m hereFrench Riviera (Ligurian Sea) · one death here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• April 18, 1968Earthquake · M 4.6LiguriaNOAA NCEI
• July 19, 1963Earthquake · M 6.358 km SSE of San Lorenzo al Mare, ItalyUSGS
• July 19, 1963Earthquake · M 6.162 km SSE of San Lorenzo al Mare, ItalyUSGS

• An event counts for Nice 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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