Mongolia
Earthquakes in Mongolia, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 66 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in Mongolia. The strongest was a magnitude 6.7 on January 11, 2021 (29 km SSW of Turt, Mongolia).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded one earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.9 on October 6 (109 km SW of Turpan, China).
What the record holds
2021 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 31 of the 66. 18 came in the 30 days after the strongest, within 150 km of it.
The events
- April 26, 2026Earthquake · M 5.5170 km SE of Khovd, MongoliaUSGS
- May 3, 2021Earthquake · M 5.628 km SW of Turt, MongoliaUSGS
- January 11, 2021Earthquake · M 6.729 km SSW of Turt, MongoliaUSGS
- January 11, 2021Earthquake · M 5.410 km WSW of Turt, MongoliaUSGS
- March 20, 2020Earthquake · M 5.5178 km WSW of Altai, MongoliaUSGS
Good to know
- An event counts for Mongolia when it began inside its borders. Damage can reach across them.
- 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 Mongolia, 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