Significant Earthquakes of the 1000s

• January 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Balkans NW
• April 30, 1000, Shaanxi Province, China62 deaths
• 1001, Verona, ItalyM6 · Deaths: many
• January 1001, Tsin, Shaanxi Province, China60 deaths
• 1003, Kars, Digor, Ani (Armenia), TurkeyM4.2 · Deaths: many
• 1003, Burgundy, France
• September 17, 1007, Dinavar,baghdad, Tigris-Ktesiphon, Iran-Iraq16,000 deaths
• April 11, 1008, Dainawar, Iran-IraqM6.5 · 16,000 deaths · tsunami
• March 9, 1010, TurkeyDeaths: some
• 1013, Sudurland, Iceland11 deaths
• May 12, 1021, Switzerland
• April 1022, Datong, Shaanxi Province, ChinaM6.5
• June 16, 1026, Off Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, JapanM7.5 · 1,001 deaths · 3,000 houses destroyed · tsunami
• December 5, 1033, Ramala, Gaza, Nablus, Egypt, Israel, Syria70,000 deaths · tsunami
• March 12, 1036, Cicilia, Turkeytsunami
• July 1036, Kaesong, North KoreaM5.7
• December 1037, Taichou, Jiangsu Province, China22,391 deaths
• January 9, 1038, Dingxiang, Xinxian, Shaanxi Province, ChinaM7.3 · 32,300 deaths
• February 2, 1039, Istanbul (Constantinople), TurkeyM6.8 · Deaths: many · tsunami
• 1040, Al-Kairawan, Tunisia
• August 21, 1042, Tabriz, Iran40,000 deaths
• November 4, 1042, Tabriz, IranM7.6 · 50,000 deaths
• April 5, 1045, Erzincan, TurkeyDeaths: many
• 1046, Diyarbakir (Diarbekir), Kurdistan, TurkeyM6.3 · Deaths: many
• 1048, Britian, United KingdomDeaths: many
• 1052, Arrjan, Khuzestan, Iran
• March 1052, Baihaq, Nishapur, Khorasan, Iran
• 1057, Beijing, ChinaM6.8 · 25,000 deaths
• December 8, 1058, Mosul, Kirkuk, Hamadan, Tikrit, Wasit, Amah, IraqDeaths: many
• July 1063, Tarabulus (Tripolis), Tyre, Turkey, Iraq, LebanonDeaths: many
• September 23, 1063, Istanbul,trakya, Erdek, Iznik, Turkey
• 1064, Iznik,nicaea, Turkey
• January 21, 1065, Catania,messina,milazzo,pale, Sicily, Italy975 deaths
• December 3, 1065, Khorasan,jabal, IranDeaths: many
• March 31, 1066, Khorasan, IranDeaths: many
• November 1067, Guangdong Province, ChinaM6.8 · Deaths: many
• May 29, 1068, Ramla,palestine,jerusalem,tabuk,kufa,halla, IsraelDeaths: many · tsunami
• August 14, 1068, Cangzhou, Hejian, Hebei Province, ChinaM6 · Deaths: many
• February 25, 1070, Jerusalem, Al-Qahirah (Cairo), Israel, Egypt
• 1072, Mecca, Sana, Zabid, Saudi Arabia, Yemen50 deaths
• 1076, (Many Countries), SyriaDeaths: many
• December 6, 1082, Turkey
• April 29, 1085, Arajan,khuzestan, IranDeaths: many
• April 29, 1085, Erzurum, TurkeyDeaths: many
• 1086, Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy1,000 deaths
• April 18, 1086, Mesopotamia,jazirah,badharaya, Syria, Iraq
• April 22, 1088, Tmogvi, GeorgiaM5.3 · Deaths: many
• June 10, 1088, Sanriku, JapanM7 · tsunami
• 1089, Tudmur (Palmyra), Syria
• September 26, 1091, Antakya (Antioch), Syria, Turkey
• December 17, 1096, Enshunada, JapanM8.4 · 400 deaths · tsunami
• February 22, 1099, Nankaido, JapanM8.4 · tsunami

• 2100s BC 1
• 2000s BC 2
• 1600s BC 1
• 1500s BC 1
• 1400s BC 1
• 1300s BC 1
• 1200s BC 1
• 1000s BC 1
• 700s BC 1
• 500s BC 3
• 400s BC 5
• 300s BC 4
• 200s BC 10
• 100s BC 4
• 99 to 1 BC 13
• Years 1 to 99 23
• 100s 18
• 200s 7
• 300s 31
• 400s 20
• 500s 30
• 600s 9
• 700s 29
• 800s 54
• 900s 25
• 1000s 52
• 1100s 50
• 1200s 54
• 1300s 78
• 1400s 92
• 1500s 172
• 1600s 329
• 1700s 410
• 1800s 1,073
• 1900s 2,620
• 2000s 1,472

Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24.