Serbia

Earthquakes in Serbia through history

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 6 or more in Serbia from 1900 to October 19, 2026. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 13 in Serbia, back to 1739.

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USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 6 on March 24, 1922 (Serbia). The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake on April 8, 1893 (Nw: Popovic), for which NOAA records 3 deaths. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 6 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.4 on March 8, 2015 (Serbia: Kosjeric). NOAA’s record here begins on February 4, 1739 with an earthquake (Serbia). It grows thinner going back: 8 of the 13 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

The events

  • March 8, 2015Earthquake · M 4.4Serbia: KosjericNOAA NCEI
  • November 3, 2010Earthquake · M 5.5Serbia: Kraljevo · 2 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • September 29, 1998Earthquake · M 5.5Serbia: Belgrade, Ljig, Valjevo · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 18, 1980Earthquake · M 5.8SerbiaNOAA NCEI
  • April 13, 1978Earthquake · M 5.7Serbia: BrusNOAA NCEI
  • May 15, 1927Earthquake · M 5.9SerbiaNOAA NCEI
  • March 24, 1922Earthquake · M 6.0SerbiaNOAA NCEI
  • April 8, 1893EarthquakeNw: Popovic · 3 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • February 4, 1739EarthquakeSerbiaNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Serbia when it began inside its borders. Damage can reach across them.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • 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 Serbia, 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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