Sarajevo

Earthquakes near Sarajevo, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 9 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Sarajevo, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.7 on April 22, 2022 (15 km NNE of Ljubinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records one death for it. One earthquake here in these years is on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes.

The events

  • April 22, 2022Earthquake · M 5.715 km NNE of Ljubinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 26, 2019Earthquake · M 5.34 km SSE of Blagaj, Bosnia and HerzegovinaUSGS

Good to know

  • An event counts for Sarajevo 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 are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
  • 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

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