Earthquakes in Azerbaijan, 1927–2026
From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in or off Azerbaijan. None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 6.8 on November 25, 2000 (15 km SSE of Baku, Azerbaijan).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded one earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.5 on October 1 (8 km ENE of Zaqatala, Azerbaijan).
What the record holds
It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 31 deaths for it. 8 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 33 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5 on February 5, 2019 (Shemakha (Semacha)).
The events
- February 5, 2019Earthquake · M 5.0Shemakha (Semacha)NOAA NCEI
- June 5, 2018Earthquake · M 5.32 km SE of Mamrux, Azerbaijan · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- November 25, 2000Earthquake · M 6.815 km SSE of Baku, Azerbaijan · 31 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- November 25, 2000Earthquake · M 6.523 km SSE of Badamdar, AzerbaijanUSGS
- June 4, 1999Earthquake · M 5.4Agdas, Ucar, Agali · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- July 9, 1998Earthquake · M 6.010 km SE of Lerik, AzerbaijanUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- September 16, 1989Earthquake · M 6.5USGS
- May 4, 1980Earthquake · M 6.229 km NNE of Hashtpar, IranUSGS
Good to know
- An event counts for Azerbaijan when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Azerbaijan is the nearest country.
- 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.
- The map frames the box around Azerbaijan, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
- Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.
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