Significant Earthquakes of 1959
Every significant earthquake NOAA records in 1959. Every quake the USGS located in 1959.
Map
The significant earthquakes of 1959. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
Every earthquake
- January 22, 1959, Sanriku, Japan
- January 26, 1959, Northern Italy
- February 7, 1959, Peru-Ecuador
- April 5, 1959, St Paul D'Ubaye,jausiers,ceillac,vars, France
- April 9, 1959, Kuril Islands, Russia
- April 11, 1959, Central, Italy
- April 17, 1959, Northern Italy
- April 25, 1959, Koycegiz, Mugla, Turkey
- April 26, 1959, Taipei, Taiwan
- May 4, 1959, Near East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia
- May 12, 1959, Salta, Argentina
- May 24, 1959, Oaxaca,, Mexico
- June 14, 1959, Bolivia-Northern Chile
- June 18, 1959, Near Kamchatka, Russia
- July 2, 1959, Henan Province, China
- August 10, 1959, Shaanxi Province, China
- August 15, 1959, Taiwan
- August 17, 1959, Solomon Islands
- August 18, 1959, Hebgen Lake, Montana, United States
- August 26, 1959, Gulf of Campeche, Mexico
- August 29, 1959, Lake Baykal (Baikal), Russia
- September 1, 1959, Albania
- September 14, 1959, Kermadec Islands
- October 25, 1959, Ninia, Turkey
- October 26, 1959, Sanriku, Japan
- October 27, 1959, Kamchatka, Russia
- November 7, 1959, Bou-Medfa, Algeria
- November 15, 1959, Xingjiang, China
- December 24, 1959, Ayacucho,pomabamba,moyobamba,huahuapuquio, Peru
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.