March 3, 1359 Earthquake: Algiers, Algeria

Date

March 3, 1359

Place

Algiers, Algeria

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

36.800° N, 3.000° E

Country

Algeria

Damage

Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)

Houses destroyed

Many (101 to 1,000)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

• May 1716, Algiers, Algeria20,000 deaths · 0 km
• March 2, 1825, Blida, Algiers, Algeria7,000 deaths · 48 km
• October 10, 1980, Northern, AlgeriaM7.1 · 5,000 deaths · $5.2 billion · 250,000 houses destroyed · 160 km
• May 21, 2003, Algiers, Boumerdes, Reghia, Thenia, AlgeriaM6.8 · 2,287 deaths · $5 billion · 19,000 houses destroyed · 59 km
• September 9, 1954, Orleansville, AlgeriaM6.7 · 1,243 deaths · $6 million · 20,000 houses destroyed · 139 km
• January 2, 1867, El Affroun, Algeria70 deaths · 52 km
• February 21, 1960, Melouza, AlgeriaM5.6 · 47 deaths · 133 km
• January 15, 1891, Bourava, Gouraya, Algeria36 deaths · 75 houses destroyed · 112 km
• December 3, 1885, M'Sila, AlgeriaM5.9 · 33 deaths · 163 km
• October 29, 1989, Algiers, Cherchell, Tipaza, AlgeriaM5.7 · 30 deaths · $5 million · 49 km
• June 24, 1910, Masqueray, Kabylia, AlgeriaM6.4 · 12 deaths · 126 km
• May 27, 2003, Algiers, Boumerdes, Reghaia, AlgeriaM5.7 · 9 deaths · 54 km
• August 1, 2014, Algiers, AlgeriaM5.5 · 6 deaths · 17 km
• January 1, 1965, M'Sila, AlgeriaM5.5 · 4 deaths · $2 million · 2,500 houses destroyed · 175 km
• May 14, 2010, Beni Yellman, Northern, AlgeriaM5.2 · 2 deaths · 142 km

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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. NCEI earthquake 9917.