Earthquakes in India, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 716 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off India. The strongest was a magnitude 6.4 on July 28, 2025 (264 km WNW of Sabang, Indonesia).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 18 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 5 on October 22 (207 km ENE of Nagqu, China). The strongest: magnitude 7 on October 22 (191 km ENE of Nagqu, China).
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.7 on January 3, 2017 (Ambasa; Bangladesh), for which NOAA records 3 deaths. 8 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 64 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.1 on August 20, 2024 (8 km SW of Bāramūla, India). NOAA lists one tsunami that began in or off India. The highest water NOAA records here was 15 m, on October 3, 2023.
The events
- July 28, 2025Earthquake · M 6.4264 km WNW of Sabang, IndonesiaUSGS
- August 20, 2024Earthquake · M 5.18 km SW of Bāramūla, India · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- October 3, 2023Tsunami · 15 m hereSouth Lhonak Lak, SikkimNOAA NCEI
- August 3, 2021Earthquake · M 6.1Nicobar Islands, India regionUSGS
- April 28, 2021Earthquake · M 6.08 km NNW of Dhekiajuli, India · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- July 17, 2020Earthquake · M 6.1239 km E of Port Blair, IndiaUSGS
- September 12, 2018Earthquake · M 5.3West Bengal · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- March 14, 2017Earthquake · M 6.0Nicobar Islands, India regionUSGS
- January 3, 2017Earthquake · M 5.7Ambasa; Bangladesh · 3 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
Good to know
- An event counts for India 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 India 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 India, 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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