Earthquakes in Bangladesh, 1927–2026
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 6 or more in or off Bangladesh from 1927 to October 19, 2026. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 11 in or off Bangladesh in these years.
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
What the record holds
None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 5.8 on February 6, 1988 (Sylhet; India: Tipura-Assam). The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 4.5 on March 18, 2012 (Dhaka), for which NOAA records 44 deaths. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 67 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.4 on November 21, 2025 (14 km ESE of Tungi, Bangladesh). NOAA lists one tsunami from elsewhere that reached Bangladesh with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 2.4 m, on December 26, 2004. The deadliest here came on December 26, 2004 from a magnitude 9.1 earthquake (Off W. Coast Of Sumatra): NOAA’s runup records count 2 deaths in Bangladesh.
The events
- November 21, 2025Earthquake · M 5.414 km ESE of Tungi, Bangladesh · 10 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- March 18, 2012Earthquake · M 4.5Dhaka · 44 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- November 7, 2007Earthquake · M 5.1Chittagong, Bandarban, RangamatiNOAA NCEI
- December 26, 2004Tsunami · 2.4 m hereOff W. Coast Of Sumatra · 2 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- July 26, 2003Earthquake · M 5.7Rangamati · 2 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- July 22, 1999Earthquake · M 4.2Maheshkhali Island, Cox's Bazaar · 6 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- June 12, 1989Earthquake · M 5.1Banaripara · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- February 6, 1988Earthquake · M 5.8Sylhet; India: Tipura-Assam · 2 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Bangladesh 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 Bangladesh 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 Bangladesh, 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history