Central African Republic
Earthquakes in Central African Republic through history
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 6 or more in Central African Republic from 1900 to October 19, 2026. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has one in Central African Republic, back to 1921.
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
It was a magnitude 4.8 on September 16, 1921 (Nola). NOAA records no deaths for it. NOAA’s record here begins on September 16, 1921 with an earthquake (Nola).
The events
- September 16, 1921Earthquake · M 4.8NolaNOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Central African Republic when it began inside its borders. Damage can reach across them.
- 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 Central African Republic, 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