October 27, 1806 Earthquake: Granada, Spain
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Granada, Spain on October 27, 1806 at 12:30 UTC. It killed 13 people.
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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
- October 27, 1806
- Time
- 12:30 UTC
- Place
- Granada, Spain
- Magnitude
- 5.3 (Mw)
- Intensity
- 8 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 37.230° N, 3.730° W
- Country
- Spain
The toll
- Deaths
- 13
- Damage
- Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)
- Houses destroyed
- Some (about 51 to 100)
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.
Reference #497 lists Nov 1 to 18 violent shocks in Grenada, Spain. Several houses were injured and a village was ruined and replaced, it was said, by a new river. [Note: Probable aftershocks of 27 October event. Ref #9896 notes this as Perrey made similar entry for November 1806]
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- September 22, 1522, Fez, Almeria, Morocco, Spain
- December 25, 1884, Arenas del Rey, Vega, Alhama, Malaga, Spain
- September 30, 1531, Baza, Spain
- August 25, 1804, Almeria, Dalias, Roquetas, Spain
- November 9, 1518, Vera, Spain
- October 9, 1680, Malaga, Spain
- August 28, 1674, Lorca, Spain
- April 5, 1504, Carmona, Spain
- April 19, 1956, Spain
- May 11, 2011, Lorca, Spain
- January 13, 1804, Dalias, Almeria, Spain
- January 25, 2016, Melilla, Morocco
- April 24, 1431, Granada, Spain
- March 29, 1954, Spain
- July 5, 1930, Montilla, Spain
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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 10689.