Namibia
Earthquakes in Namibia, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 8 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Namibia. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.4 on April 4, 2021 (68 km NNW of Khorixas, Namibia).
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.
The events
- April 12, 2022Earthquake · M 5.033 km N of Khorixas, NamibiaUSGS
- May 24, 2021Earthquake · M 4.965 km NNW of Khorixas, NamibiaUSGS
- April 4, 2021Earthquake · M 5.468 km NNW of Khorixas, NamibiaUSGS
- May 24, 2018Earthquake · M 5.073 km NNW of Khorixas, NamibiaUSGS
- March 14, 2018Earthquake · M 4.867 km NNW of Khorixas, NamibiaUSGS
Good to know
- An event counts for Namibia 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 Namibia 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 Namibia, 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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