Significant Earthquakes of 2012

• January 9, 2012, Solomon IslandsM6.4 · tsunami
• January 19, 2012, Khorasan-E-Razavi, IranM5.3
• January 30, 2012, Ica, PeruM6.4
• February 2, 2012, Vanuatu IslandsM7 · tsunami
• February 6, 2012, Negros Oriental Province, PhilippinesM6.7 · 51 deaths · $9 million · 15,000 houses destroyed · tsunami
• February 26, 2012, Pingtung, TaiwanM5.9
• February 27, 2012, Ravar, IranM5.2
• March 3, 2012, Loyalty Islands, New CaledoniaM6.6 · tsunami
• March 5, 2012, Masbate Island, PhilippinesM5.6 · 1 house destroyed
• March 8, 2012, Xinjiang, ChinaM5.9 · $84 million
• March 9, 2012, Vanuatu IslandsM6.7 · tsunami
• March 14, 2012, Hokkaido, JapanM6.9 · tsunami
• March 16, 2012, Surigao, PhilippinesM5.8 · 4 houses destroyed
• March 18, 2012, Dhaka, BangladeshM4.5 · 44 deaths
• March 20, 2012, Guerrero, Oaxaca, MexicoM7.4 · 2 deaths · $600 million · 800 houses destroyed · tsunami
• March 25, 2012, Parral, Santiago, ChileM7.2 · 1 death · $100 million
• April 11, 2012, Off West Coast, N Sumatra, IndonesiaM8.6 · 10 deaths · tsunami
• April 11, 2012, Off West Coast, N Sumatra, IndonesiaM8.2 · tsunami
• April 14, 2012, Vanuatu IslandsM6.3 · tsunami
• April 17, 2012, Valparaiso, ChileM6.7 · 2 deaths
• May 3, 2012, Mourmouri, Abdanan, Dehloran, IranM5.4
• May 7, 2012, Zagatala, AzerbaijanM5.7 · 3,100 houses destroyed
• May 11, 2012, Kamrup, Guwahati, Assam, IndiaM5.4
• May 12, 2012, TajikistanM5.7 · 1 death
• May 14, 2012, Tacna, Arica, Peru, ChileM6.3
• May 19, 2012, Montes Claros, BrazilM4.1
• May 20, 2012, Mirandola, Emilia Romagna, ItalyM6.1 · 7 deaths
• May 20, 2012, Sant'Agostino, ItalyM5.1
• May 22, 2012, Pernik, BulgariaM5.6
• May 29, 2012, Medolla, Mirandola, Cavezzo, Emilia Romagna, ItalyM5.9 · 17 deaths · $16 billion
• June 4, 2012, Java, IndonesiaM5.8
• June 10, 2012, Rhodes, Fethiye, Greece, TurkeyM6.1
• June 11, 2012, Hindu Kush, AfghanistanM5.8 · 75 deaths · 143 houses destroyed
• June 14, 2012, Sirnak, TurkeyM5.3
• June 24, 2012, Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces, ChinaM5.5 · 4 deaths · 6,768 houses destroyed
• June 29, 2012, Xinjiang Province, ChinaM6.3 · $68 million
• July 20, 2012, Jiangsu Province, ChinaM4.9 · 1 death
• July 25, 2012, Guadalcanal, Solomon IslandsM6.4 · 26 houses destroyed
• July 25, 2012, Banda Aceh, IndonesiaM6.5 · 1 death
• August 11, 2012, Ahar, Haris, Varzagan, IranM6.5 · 306 deaths · $599 million
• August 14, 2012, Sakhalin Island, RussiaM7.7
• August 18, 2012, Sigi, Parigi Mountong, Sulawesi, IndonesiaM6.3 · 6 deaths · 471 houses destroyed
• August 27, 2012, Off the Coast, NicaraguaM7.3 · tsunami
• August 31, 2012, Cagayan DE Oro, Tacloban, PhilippinesM7.6 · 1 death · $300,000 · tsunami
• September 5, 2012, Nicoya, Costa RicaM7.6 · 2 deaths · $45 million · tsunami
• September 7, 2012, Yiliang, Zhaotong, Yunnan Province, ChinaM5.6 · 81 deaths · $1 billion · 37,000 houses destroyed
• October 18, 2012, Deurala, Jaisinghnagar, Kotma, Sarai, Umaria, IndiaM5
• October 28, 2012, Queen Charlotte Islands, CanadaM7.7 · 1 death · tsunami
• November 7, 2012, San Marcos, San Cristobal Cochu, GuatemalaM7.3 · 48 deaths · $210 million · 2,769 houses destroyed · tsunami
• November 11, 2012, Shwebo, MyanmarM6.8 · 38 deaths · $1.2 million · 251 houses destroyed
• November 26, 2012, Ruoqiang, Xinjiang Province, ChinaM5.1
• December 5, 2012, Khorasan Province, IranM5.7 · 8 deaths
• December 7, 2012, Miyagi Prefecture, Honshu, JapanM7.2 · tsunami

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.