Zimbabwe
Earthquakes in Zimbabwe, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in Zimbabwe. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 4.9, twice: on December 20, 2024 (21 km S of Kariba, Zimbabwe) and on December 23, 2024 (17 km S of Kariba, Zimbabwe).
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.
The events
- December 23, 2024Earthquake · M 4.917 km S of Kariba, ZimbabweUSGS
- December 20, 2024Earthquake · M 4.921 km S of Kariba, ZimbabweUSGS
- December 20, 2024Earthquake · M 4.623 km SSE of Kariba, ZimbabweUSGS
- May 24, 2022Earthquake · M 4.714 km SE of Binga, ZimbabweUSGS
- November 7, 2019Earthquake · M 4.561 km ENE of Sinazongwe, ZambiaUSGS
Good to know
- An event counts for Zimbabwe 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 Zimbabwe, 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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