Significant Earthquakes of the 1600s

• November 1667, Shemakha (Samaxi), AzerbaijanM6.9 · 80,000 deaths
• January 9, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, Catania, ItalyM6 · 60,000 deaths · 972 houses destroyed · tsunami
• January 11, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, ItalyM7.4 · 54,000 deaths · tsunami
• July 25, 1668, Shandong Province, ChinaM8.5 · 42,578 deaths · tsunami
• February 5, 1641, Tabriz, Kurdistan, Iran30,000 deaths
• May 18, 1695, Linfen, Shanxi Province, ChinaM8 · 20,000 deaths
• July 10, 1668, TurkeyM6.6 · 17,500 deaths · tsunami
• July 10, 1688, Izmir, TurkeyM7 · 16,000 deaths · tsunami
• September 2, 1679, Hebei Province, ChinaM8 · 13,162 deaths
• October 25, 1622, Pingliang, Longde, Ningxia, ChinaM7 · 12,000 deaths · 11,800 houses destroyed
• May 4, 1639, Qazvin, Iran12,000 deaths
• November 18, 1667, Shirvan, Shamkha, Iran12,000 deaths
• 1654, Lima, Chile, Peru11,000 deaths
• 1657, Lima,callao, Peru11,000 deaths
• July 21, 1654, Tianshui, Gansu Province, ChinaM8 · 10,400 deaths
• March 27, 1638, Cosenza,martirano, Nicastro, Calabria, ItalyM7 · 9,581 deaths · tsunami
• June 4, 1679, Dvina, Turkey, ArmeniaM5.9 · 7,600 deaths
• January 14, 1668, Shemakha (Semacha), AzerbaijanM6 · 7,000 deaths · tsunami
• June 20, 1698, Tungurahua,cotopaxi,chimborazo, EcuadorM7.7 · 6,500 deaths
• July 30, 1673, Mashhad, Neyshabur (Nishapur), IranM6.6 · 5,600 deaths
• June 28, 1626, Shanxi Province, ChinaM7.1 · 5,200 deaths
• February 3, 1605, Nankaido, JapanM7.9 · 5,000 deaths · 400 houses destroyed · tsunami
• December 2, 1611, Sanriku, JapanM8.1 · 5,000 deaths · tsunami
• July 30, 1627, Lesina, ItalyM6.7 · 5,000 deaths · tsunami
• February 1640, Ecuador5,000 deaths
• April 6, 1667, Ragusa, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Balkans NWM7.2 · 5,000 deaths · tsunami
• October 20, 1687, Lima, PeruM8.5 · 5,000 deaths · tsunami
• September 8, 1694, Calitri, Italy4,057 deaths
• December 16, 1631, Naples (Napoli), Italy4,000 deaths · tsunami
• September 27, 1611, Aidu, Japan3,700 deaths
• June 5, 1688, Benevento, Italy3,311 deaths
• April 20, 1608, Gilan, W Mazandaran, IranM7.6 · 3,000 deaths · tsunami
• July 13, 1652, Midu, Yunnan Province, ChinaM6.8 · 3,000 deaths
• June 7, 1692, Port Royal, Jamaica3,000 deaths · tsunami
• September 9, 1680, Yunnan Province, ChinaM6.8 · 2,700 deaths
• February 23, 1653, Izmir,alasehir,denizli,aydin, TurkeyM7.5 · 2,500 deaths
• February 17, 1674, Ambon Island, Seram Island, IndonesiaM6.8 · 2,330 deaths · tsunami
• November 5, 1659, Panaija, Soriano, Polia, Italy2,035 deaths
• July 13, 1605, Guangdong Province, ChinaM7.5 · 2,000 deaths · tsunami
• November 30, 1606, Jianshui, Yunnan Province, ChinaM6.5 · 2,000 deaths
• May 26, 1618, Bombay, India2,000 deaths
• March 31, 1648, Van, Turkey2,000 deaths
• January 1688, Pisticci, Italy2,000 deaths
• February 19, 1600, Volcan Huaynaputina, PeruM7.9 · 1,500 deaths
• 1664, Tabriz, Iran1,500 deaths
• February 1, 1666, Takata, Japan1,500 deaths
• April 14, 1672, Rimini, ItalyM5.6 · 1,500 deaths · tsunami
• February 3, 1605, Enshunada, JapanM7.9 · 1,001 deaths · 80 houses destroyed · tsunami
• November 22, 1683, Shanxi Province, ChinaM7 · 1,001 deaths
• May 14, 1647, Santiago, ChileM8.5 · 1,000 deaths · 300 houses destroyed
• July 12, 1609, Jiuquan, Gansu, ChinaM7.3 · 840 deaths
• December 19, 1618, Dughabad,khorasan, Iran800 deaths
• July 31, 1640, Uchiura Bay, JapanM6.5 · 700 deaths · 20 houses destroyed · tsunami
• November 30, 1645, S Batangas to N Cagayan, Luzon, PhilippinesM8 · 600 deaths · tsunami
• July 23, 1654, Alvito,bellomonte,pontecorvo,sora, Italy600 deaths
• June 16, 1662, Yamasiro, Japan600 deaths
• September 30, 1636, Cephalonia, GreeceM7.2 · 520 deaths · tsunami
• November 4, 1677, Off SE. Boso Peninsula, JapanM7.4 · 500 deaths · 1,001 houses destroyed · tsunami
• May 12, 1664, Ica, Pisco, PeruM7.3 · 400 deaths · tsunami
• June 19, 1694, Ugo, Japan394 deaths · 2,760 houses destroyed

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• 1601 2
• 1602 1
• 1603 1
• 1604 5
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• 1611 6
• 1612 1
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• 1684 1
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• 1688 10
• 1689 3
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• 1691 1
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• 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.