1524 Earthquake: Dabul, India
An earthquake struck Dabul, India in 1524. It caused a tsunami.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- 1524
- Place
- Dabul, India
- Tsunami
- Yes: the tsunami it caused
- Epicenter
- 17.000° N, 73.200° E
- Country
- India
The toll
- Damage
- Limited (under about $1 million) with its tsunami and other effects
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.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
1524 - Dabul, India. Similarly the arrival of Vasco de Gama's fleet in 1524 coincided with a violent sea-quake and tsunami that caused alarm at Dabul. Note that this Portuguese port at latitude 17 deg 34 min on the Malabar Coast is unrelated to Debil above. This could have been a local event, but since it was not reported onshore it could have been the tsunami from a remote earthquake that occurred
along the Makran or Gujarat coastlines. Such accounts are thus of fragmentary value in quantifying earthquake locations and sizes... Maps in 1690 and 1740 show Debil near the current location of Karachi. Other maps show it on a distributary of the Indus. (reference #4084).
An earthquake occurred during 1524 A.D. off the coast of Dabhol, Maharashtra and a resulting large tsunami caused considerable alarm to the Portuguese fleet that was
assembled in the area. (reference #2771)
1524 A.D., 17 N, 73.2 E. An earthquake occurred during 1524 A.D. off the coast of Dabhol, Maharashtra and a resulting large tsunami caused considerable alarm to the Portuguese fleet that was assembled in the area. (reference #6425)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- December 10, 1967, India
- September 16, 2008, Maharashtra, India
- March 15, 2005, Dhebewadi, Maharashtra, India
- August 20, 2007, Satara, Maharashtra, India
- March 14, 2005, Kolhapur, Ratnagiri, Satara, Maharashtra, India
- August 30, 2005, Ambeghar, Dicholi, Kisrule, Maharashtra, India
- December 12, 2009, Satara, Maharashtra, India
- August 14, 2005, Maharashtra, India
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Sources
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 9881.