Bosnia & Herzegovina

Earthquakes in Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 11 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Bosnia & Herzegovina. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.7 on April 22, 2022 (15 km NNE of Ljubinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

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.

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records one death for it. One earthquake here in these years is on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. 2019 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 3 of the 11.

The events

  • April 24, 2022Earthquake · M 4.812 km NNE of Ljubinje, Bosnia and HerzegovinaUSGS
  • April 22, 2022Earthquake · M 5.715 km NNE of Ljubinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 6, 2021Earthquake · M 4.910 km E of Otok, CroatiaUSGS
  • November 26, 2019Earthquake · M 5.34 km SSE of Blagaj, Bosnia and HerzegovinaUSGS
  • August 30, 2019Earthquake · M 4.86 km NNW of Mramor, Bosnia and HerzegovinaUSGS

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 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.
  • 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history

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