Earthquakes in Vatican City through history

The strongest was a magnitude 5.6 on October 22, 1919 (Tyrrhenian Sea). NOAA records no deaths for any of them. NOAA’s record here begins on November 1, 1895 with an earthquake (Tyrrhenian Sea).

• October 22, 1919Earthquake · M 5.6Tyrrhenian SeaNOAA NCEI
• November 1, 1895EarthquakeTyrrhenian SeaNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Vatican City 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 Vatican City is the nearest country.
• 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 Vatican City, 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