April 16, 1943 Earthquake: Mansourah, Algeria

Date

April 16, 1943

Place

Mansourah, Algeria

Magnitude

5

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

36.100° N, 4.500° E

Country

Algeria

Deaths

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.

• May 1716, Algiers, Algeria20,000 deaths · 155 km
• March 2, 1825, Blida, Algiers, Algeria7,000 deaths · 156 km
• May 21, 2003, Algiers, Boumerdes, Reghia, Thenia, AlgeriaM6.8 · 2,287 deaths · $5 billion · 19,000 houses destroyed · 123 km
• February 12, 1946, Hodna Mountains, AlgeriaM5.6 · 264 deaths · 60 km
• January 2, 1867, El Affroun, Algeria70 deaths · 165 km
• February 21, 1960, Melouza, AlgeriaM5.6 · 47 deaths · 38 km
• November 16, 1869, Biskra, Algeria40 deaths · 184 km
• December 3, 1885, M'Sila, AlgeriaM5.9 · 33 deaths · 9 km
• October 29, 1989, Algiers, Cherchell, Tipaza, AlgeriaM5.7 · 30 deaths · $5 million · 199 km
• June 24, 1910, Masqueray, Kabylia, AlgeriaM6.4 · 12 deaths · 46 km
• May 27, 2003, Algiers, Boumerdes, Reghaia, AlgeriaM5.7 · 9 deaths · 124 km
• August 22, 1856, Northern, Algeria8 deaths · 154 km
• August 1, 2014, Algiers, AlgeriaM5.5 · 6 deaths · 145 km
• August 21, 1856, Northern, Algeria5 deaths · 154 km
• January 1, 1965, M'Sila, AlgeriaM5.5 · 4 deaths · $2 million · 2,500 houses destroyed · 45 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 3742.