Earthquakes near Quetta through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 60,000 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 14 here, back to 1892. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 60,568 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.9 on October 6, 2021 (11 km NNE of Harnai, Pakistan). NOAA’s record here begins on December 20, 1892 with an earthquake (Chaman,Baluchistan). 2 of the 14 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Quetta.

• October 6, 2021Earthquake · M 5.911 km NNE of Harnai, Pakistan · 42 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• May 30, 1935Earthquake · M 7.617 km WSW of Kalat, Pakistan · 60,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• May 30, 1935TsunamiQuettaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• October 20, 1909Earthquake · M 7.258 km SW of Bhag, PakistanUSGS
• December 20, 1892EarthquakeChaman,BaluchistanNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Quetta 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