Earthquakes near Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh, 2017–2026

The one on June 18, 2024 was the deadliest: NOAA records 4 deaths for it. One earthquake here in these years is on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes.

• June 18, 2024Earthquake · M 4.96 km SE of Kāshmar, Iran · 4 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• April 27, 2023Earthquake · M 4.941 km SW of Mashhad, IranUSGS

• An event counts for Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh 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