Earthquakes in Vietnam, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 15 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Vietnam. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.1 on July 28, 2024 (53 km NNE of Kon Tum, Vietnam).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
What the record holds
One earthquake here in these years is on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. 2022 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 4 of the 15. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.9 on July 27, 2020 (~120km W of Hanoi, Vietnam). NOAA lists one tsunami that began in or off Vietnam. The highest water NOAA records here was 8.5 m, on November 5, 2017. The deadliest, on November 5, 2017, killed one person here by NOAA’s runup records.
The events
- October 5, 2025Earthquake · M 4.748 km S of Trà My, VietnamUSGS
- July 28, 2024Earthquake · M 5.153 km NNE of Kon Tum, VietnamUSGS
- August 23, 2022Earthquake · M 4.843 km NNE of Kon Tum, VietnamUSGS
- April 18, 2022Earthquake · M 4.846 km NNE of Kon Tum, VietnamUSGS
- July 27, 2020Earthquake · M 4.9~120km W of Hanoi, VietnamUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- November 5, 2017Tsunami · 8.5 m hereQuang Nam · one death here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Vietnam 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 Vietnam 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 Vietnam, 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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