Significant Earthquakes of the 1700s

• November 18, 1727, Tabriz, Iran77,000 deaths
• June 19, 1718, Gansu Province, ChinaM7.5 · 73,000 deaths
• January 3, 1739, Ningxia, ChinaM8 · 50,000 deaths
• November 1, 1755, Lisbon, PortugalM8.5 · 50,000 deaths · tsunami
• January 8, 1780, Tabriz, IranM7.7 · 50,000 deaths
• January 14, 1703, Central Apennino, Norcia, L'Aquila, Perugia, Italy40,000 deaths
• April 26, 1721, Tabriz, IranM7.7 · 40,000 deaths
• October 1754, Al-Qahirah (Cairo), Egypt40,000 deaths
• June 7, 1755, Tabriz,kashan, N, Iran40,000 deaths
• May 22, 1782, Tainan, Taiwan40,000 deaths · tsunami
• February 4, 1797, Riobamba, Quito, Cuzco, Peru, Colombia, EcuadorM8.3 · 40,000 deaths · tsunami
• November 25, 1759, Damascus, Antioch, Baalbec, Syria, Lebanon-SyriaM7.4 · 30,000 deaths · tsunami
• January 30, 1778, Kashan, Iran30,000 deaths
• February 5, 1783, Tyrrhenian Calabria, ItalyM6.9 · 30,000 deaths · tsunami
• May 1716, Algiers, Algeria20,000 deaths
• July 21, 1752, Palestine, Syria, Israel20,000 deaths
• December 14, 1797, Cumana, Cariaco, Venezuela16,000 deaths
• May 21, 1792, Kyusyu Island, JapanM6.4 · 15,030 deaths · 6,200 houses destroyed · tsunami
• April 24, 1771, Ryukyu Islands, JapanM7.4 · 13,486 deaths · 3,237 houses destroyed · tsunami
• February 2, 1703, L'Aquila (Aquila), ItalyM6.7 · 10,000 deaths · tsunami
• August 6, 1757, Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy10,000 deaths
• December 27, 1779, Tabriz, IranM6.5 · 10,000 deaths
• May 25, 1719, Turkey6,000 deaths
• October 29, 1746, Lima, Callao, PeruM8 · 5,941 deaths · tsunami
• December 30, 1703, Off SW Boso Peninsula, JapanM8.2 · 5,233 deaths · 20,162 houses destroyed · tsunami
• October 28, 1707, Nankaido, JapanM8.4 · 5,000 deaths · 77,000 houses destroyed · tsunami
• July 23, 1784, Erzurum,erzincan, Turkey5,000 deaths
• May 22, 1766, TurkeyM6.5 · 4,000 deaths · tsunami
• March 20, 1731, Foggia, ItalyM6.3 · 3,600 deaths · tsunami
• November 19, 1755, Meknes, Fes, Morocco3,000 deaths
• April 15, 1757, Sale, Cape Cantin, Morocco3,000 deaths
• January 1758, Tunis, Constantine, Tunisia3,000 deaths
• October 9, 1790, Cartagena, Santa Fe, Oran, Spain, Algeria3,000 deaths · tsunami
• February 26, 1713, S of Xundian, Yunnan Province, ChinaM6.8 · 2,100 deaths
• May 20, 1751, NW, Honshu, JapanM6.6 · 2,100 deaths · 9,100 houses destroyed · tsunami
• September 2, 1765, Wushan, Gangu, Gansu Province, ChinaM6.5 · 2,068 deaths · 74,748 houses destroyed
• October 14, 1709, Ningxia, ChinaM7.5 · 2,032 deaths
• October 28, 1707, Enshunada, JapanM8.4 · 2,000 deaths · 10,000 houses destroyed · tsunami
• 1721, Tainan, Taiwan2,000 deaths · tsunami
• June 7, 1750, Morea,cerigo, Greece2,000 deaths
• September 2, 1754, Izmit, TurkeyM6.8 · 2,000 deaths · tsunami
• October 30, 1759, Zefat (Safed), IsraelM6.6 · 2,000 deaths · tsunami
• August 27, 1799, Yunnan Province, ChinaM6.5 · 2,000 deaths · 15,236 houses destroyed
• November 29, 1732, Ariano, Lucanie, Avellino, Italy1,940 deaths
• March 8, 1766, Hirosaki, JapanM6.9 · 1,700 deaths · 8,200 houses destroyed · tsunami
• January 7, 1725, Trujillo, Ancash, Lima, PeruM7.7 · 1,500 deaths
• February 6, 1783, Messina Straits, ItalyM5.9 · 1,500 deaths · tsunami
• February 26, 1796, Al-Ladhiqiyah (Latakia), Syria1,500 deaths
• July 9, 1757, Sao Jorge, Azores1,053 deaths · tsunami
• April 16, 1700, Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, JapanM7 · 1,000 deaths · tsunami
• November 3, 1706, Sulmona to Campobasso, Abruzzi, Italy1,000 deaths
• December 20, 1711, Seionaikai, JapanM6.7 · 1,000 deaths · 1,713 houses destroyed · tsunami
• February 22, 1757, Cotopaxi,tungurahua, Latacunga, EcuadorM7 · 1,000 deaths
• December 30, 1763, Yunnan Province, ChinaM6.5 · 1,000 deaths · 4,500 houses destroyed
• May 25, 1751, Yunnan Province, ChinaM6.8 · 900 deaths · 15,712 houses destroyed
• October 12, 1788, Saint Lucia900 deaths
• February 17, 1793, Sanriku,rikuzen,rikuchu, JapanM8.3 · 745 deaths · 1,160 houses destroyed · tsunami
• September 30, 1730, Beijing, ChinaM6.5 · 658 deaths · 26,000 houses destroyed
• January 8, 1725, Songming, Yiliang, Yunnan Province, ChinaM6 · 614 deaths
• June 3, 1773, St. Jago, Guatemala600 deaths · tsunami

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• 1766 10
• 1767 6
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• 1779 1
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• 1783 10
• 1784 11
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• 1790 2
• 1791 8
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• 1794 2
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• 2100s BC 1
• 2000s BC 2
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• 1300s BC 1
• 1200s BC 1
• 1000s BC 1
• 700s BC 1
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• 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.