Earthquakes in Myanmar (Burma), 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 384 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Myanmar (Burma). One stands far above the rest: a magnitude 7.7 on March 28, 2025 (2025 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) Earthquake). The next strongest reached 6.7.
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 11 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.6 on October 23 (91 km ESE of Tuensang, India). The strongest: magnitude 4.8 on October 3 (85 km NE of Sittwe, Burma (Myanmar)).
What the record holds
It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 3,815 deaths for it. 3 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 3,820 in all.
The events
- March 28, 2025Earthquake · M 7.72025 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) Earthquake · 3,815 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- March 28, 2025Earthquake · M 6.7Burma (Myanmar)USGS
- June 7, 2023Earthquake · M 4.820 km SSW of Nyaungdon, Myanmar · 3 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- November 25, 2021Earthquake · M 6.220 km WSW of Falam, MyanmarUSGS
- April 16, 2020Earthquake · M 5.938 km ESE of Falam, MyanmarUSGS
- January 11, 2018Earthquake · M 6.040 km WSW of Pyu, MyanmarUSGS
- March 13, 2017Earthquake · M 5.136 km SE of Tharyarwady, Myanmar · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Myanmar (Burma) 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 Myanmar (Burma) 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 Myanmar (Burma), 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