Bosnia & Herzegovina

Earthquakes in Bosnia & Herzegovina through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 8 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in or off Bosnia & Herzegovina. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 7.2 on April 6, 1667 (Croatia: Dubrovnik: Ragusa).

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USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames 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 40 here, back to 1280. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 5,048 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.7 on April 22, 2022 (15 km NNE of Ljubinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina). NOAA’s record here begins on June 6, 1280 with an earthquake (Croatia). 28 of the 40 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists one tsunami that began in or off Bosnia & Herzegovina.

The events

  • April 22, 2022Earthquake · M 5.715 km NNE of Ljubinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 26, 1969Earthquake · M 6.15 km WSW of Jezero, Bosnia and Herzegovina · 14 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 11, 1962Earthquake · M 6.3Bosnia-HerzegovinaNOAA NCEI
  • January 7, 1962Earthquake · M 6.2Croatia · 4 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • January 29, 1943EarthquakeBosnia-Herzegovina · 19 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • December 29, 1942Earthquake · M 6.22 km SE of Grabovci, CroatiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • September 14, 1843Earthquake · M 6.5 (est.)Croatia: DubrovnikNOAA NCEI
  • April 6, 1667Earthquake · M 7.2 (est.)Croatia: Dubrovnik: Ragusa · 5,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • April 6, 1667TsunamiDalmatian CoastsNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 6, 1280EarthquakeCroatiaNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Bosnia & Herzegovina 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 Bosnia & Herzegovina 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 Bosnia & Herzegovina, 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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