Earthquakes in South Sudan, 2017–2026

• November 13, 2023Earthquake · M 4.946 km NW of Moyo, UgandaUSGS
• October 31, 2023Earthquake · M 4.850 km E of Juba, South SudanUSGS
• February 25, 2022Earthquake · M 4.580 km NNW of Torit, South SudanUSGS
• October 25, 2020Earthquake · M 4.532 km NE of Juba, South SudanUSGS

• An event counts for South Sudan 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 South Sudan, 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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