Split

Earthquakes near Split through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Split, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. One stands far above the rest: an estimated magnitude 7.2 on April 6, 1667 (Croatia: Dubrovnik: Ragusa). The next strongest reached 6.2.

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 5,000 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 12 here, back to 1418. NOAA records deaths in 4 of the events here, 5,024 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.6 on November 27, 1990 (Bosnia-Herzegovina: Titograd). NOAA’s record here begins on April 7, 1418 with an earthquake (Croatia: Vrana). It grows thinner going back: 7 of the 12 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Split, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 3 m, on June 21, 1978.

The events

  • November 27, 1990Earthquake · M 5.6Bosnia-Herzegovina: TitogradNOAA NCEI
  • June 21, 1978Tsunami · 3 m hereEastern Italy, Adriatic SeaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • December 29, 1942Earthquake · M 6.22 km SE of Grabovci, CroatiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • April 6, 1667Earthquake · M 7.2 (est.)Croatia: Dubrovnik: Ragusa · 5,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • April 7, 1418EarthquakeCroatia: VranaNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Split 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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