Earthquakes in Honduras, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 156 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Honduras. One stands far above the rest: a magnitude 7.5 on January 10, 2018 (203 km NNE of Barra Patuca, Honduras). The next strongest reached 6.5.
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
2 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records no deaths for any of them. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.4 on May 6, 2018 (10 km S of Intipucá, El Salvador). NOAA lists one tsunami that began in or off Honduras. It reached 0.4 m, on January 10, 2018.
The events
- July 19, 2023Earthquake · M 6.543 km S of Intipucá, El SalvadorUSGS
- April 16, 2020Earthquake · M 6.159 km NNE of Savannah Bight, HondurasUSGS
- May 16, 2019Earthquake · M 5.941 km WSW of Jiquilillo, NicaraguaUSGS
- May 6, 2018Earthquake · M 5.410 km S of Intipucá, El SalvadorUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- April 2, 2018Earthquake · M 5.924 km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El SalvadorUSGS
- January 10, 2018Earthquake · M 7.5203 km NNE of Barra Patuca, HondurasUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- January 10, 2018Tsunami · 0.4 m highOff Coast Of HondurasNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
Good to know
- An event counts for Honduras 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 Honduras 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 Honduras, 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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