Earthquakes in Peru, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 1,113 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Peru. 7 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 8 on May 26, 2019 (78 km NE of Navarro, Peru).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 2 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 5.3 on October 11 (28 km SSW of Camaná, Peru).
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 6.8 on March 18, 2023 (14 km NNW of Baláo, Ecuador), for which NOAA records 15 deaths. 20 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 14 of the events here, 37 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.5 on July 19, 2026 (2 km WSW of Huamancaca Chico, Peru). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began in or off Peru, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 2 m, on January 15, 2022. The deadliest here came on January 15, 2022 from Tonga Islands: NOAA’s runup records count 2 deaths in Peru.
The events
- July 19, 2026Earthquake · M 5.52 km WSW of Huamancaca Chico, Peru · 6 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- June 28, 2024Earthquake · M 7.210 km WSW of Atiquipa, PeruUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- March 18, 2023Earthquake · M 6.814 km NNW of Baláo, Ecuador · 15 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- May 26, 2022Earthquake · M 7.210 km W of Azángaro, PeruUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- January 15, 2022Tsunami · 2 m hereTonga Islands · 2 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
- November 28, 2021Earthquake · M 7.543 km NNW of Barranca, PeruUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- May 26, 2019Earthquake · M 8.078 km NE of Navarro, Peru · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- January 14, 2018Earthquake · M 7.137 km W of Atiquipa, Peru · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
Good to know
- An event counts for Peru 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 Peru 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 Peru, 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