Earthquakes in Nepal, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 61 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in Nepal. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.7, three times, most recently on November 3, 2023 (43 km E of Dailekh, Nepal).
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
The one on November 3, 2023 was the deadliest: NOAA records 154 deaths for it. 6 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 166 in all. 2023 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 17 of the 61. 6 came in the 30 days after a magnitude 5.7 on October 3, 2023 (39 km NE of Dipayal, Nepal), within 150 km of it. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5 on December 20, 2024 (60 km WNW of Jumla, Nepal).
The events
- December 20, 2024Earthquake · M 5.060 km WNW of Jumla, NepalUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- November 3, 2023Earthquake · M 5.743 km E of Dailekh, Nepal · 154 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- October 3, 2023Earthquake · M 5.739 km NE of Dipayal, Nepal · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- January 24, 2023Earthquake · M 5.460 km NW of Jumla, Nepal · 4 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- November 8, 2022Earthquake · M 5.7Nepal · 6 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- September 15, 2020Earthquake · M 5.3USGS
Good to know
- An event counts for Nepal 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 Nepal, 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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