Simferopol

Earthquakes near Simferopol through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 3 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Simferopol, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was a magnitude 7, twice: in AD 103 (Black Sea) and on April 19, 1650 (Black Sea, Azov Sea).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 6.7 on September 11, 1927 (20 km SSE of Partenit, Ukraine), for which NOAA records 11 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 10 here, back to AD 103. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.7 on September 24, 1927 (Crimea: Sebastopol). NOAA’s record here begins in AD 103 with an earthquake (Black Sea). It grows thinner going back: 4 of the 10 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 6 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Simferopol. The highest water NOAA records here was 1 m, on October 11, 1869.

The events

  • September 24, 1927Earthquake · M 5.7Crimea: SebastopolNOAA NCEI
  • September 11, 1927Earthquake · M 6.720 km SSE of Partenit, Ukraine · 11 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 11, 1869Tsunami · 1 m hereBlack SeaNOAA NCEI
  • April 19, 1650Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Black Sea, Azov SeaNOAA NCEI
  • AD 103Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Black SeaNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Simferopol 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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