Earthquakes in Pakistan, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 165 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Pakistan. The strongest was a magnitude 6.3 on February 7, 2017 (22 km WSW of Pasni, Pakistan).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 5 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 22 (11 km W of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan). The strongest: magnitude 5.7 on October 17 (48 km WNW of Khuzdar, Pakistan).
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.9 on October 6, 2021 (11 km NNE of Harnai, Pakistan), for which NOAA records 42 deaths. 5 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 83 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.6 on January 19, 2026 (49 km NNW of Barishal, Pakistan).
The events
- October 17, 2026Earthquake · M 5.748 km WNW of Khuzdar, PakistanUSGS
- January 19, 2026Earthquake · M 5.649 km NNW of Barishal, Pakistan · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- October 6, 2021Earthquake · M 5.911 km NNE of Harnai, Pakistan · 42 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- August 12, 2020Earthquake · M 5.657 km SSW of Surab, PakistanUSGS
- December 30, 2019Earthquake · M 5.646 km SE of Gilgit, PakistanUSGS
- September 24, 2019Earthquake · M 5.48 km SSE of New Mirpur, Pakistan · 39 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- February 7, 2017Earthquake · M 6.322 km WSW of Pasni, PakistanUSGS · NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Pakistan 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 Pakistan 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 Pakistan, 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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