Bosnia & Herzegovina

Earthquakes in Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 7 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in or off Bosnia & Herzegovina. None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 6.3 on June 11, 1962 (Bosnia-Herzegovina).

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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

The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake on January 29, 1943 (Bosnia-Herzegovina), for which NOAA records 19 deaths. 12 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 48 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).

The events

  • April 22, 2022Earthquake · M 5.715 km NNE of Ljubinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 24, 1979Earthquake · M 6.28 km WSW of Budva, MontenegroUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • October 27, 1969Earthquake · M 6.14 km ENE of Trn, Bosnia and Herzegovina · 9 deaths (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

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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