Earthquakes in Yemen, 2017–2026

2023 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 41 of the 146. 15 came in the 30 days after a magnitude 5.8 on May 19, 2023 (163 km NNW of Qandala, Somalia), within 150 km of it.

• June 3, 2023Earthquake · M 5.8164 km N of Las Khorey, SomaliaUSGS
• June 3, 2023Earthquake · M 5.6145 km N of Las Khorey, SomaliaUSGS
• May 19, 2023Earthquake · M 5.8163 km NNW of Qandala, SomaliaUSGS
• July 15, 2018Earthquake · M 6.0214 km NNW of Kilmia, YemenUSGS
• July 15, 2018Earthquake · M 6.0192 km NNW of Kilmia, YemenUSGS

• An event counts for Yemen 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 Yemen 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 Yemen, 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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