Earthquakes near Yevpatoriya through history

The strongest was a magnitude 7, twice: in AD 103 (Black Sea) and on April 19, 1650 (Black Sea, Azov Sea). NOAA records no deaths for any of them. The latest on NOAA’s list is an estimated magnitude 5.2 on July 25, 1875 (Crimea: Sebastopol). NOAA’s record here begins in AD 103 with an earthquake (Black Sea). NOAA lists 3 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Yevpatoriya, and 2 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 1 m, on October 11, 1869.

• July 25, 1875Earthquake · M 5.2 (est.)Crimea: SebastopolNOAA NCEI
• 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

• An event counts for Yevpatoriya 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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