November 24, 2016 Earthquake: Nicaragua
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Nicaragua on November 24, 2016 at 18:43:47 UTC, 10 km below the surface. It caused a tsunami.
Map
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
- November 24, 2016
- Time
- 18:43:47 UTC
- Place
- Nicaragua
- Magnitude
- 6.9 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 10 km (6 mi)
- Intensity
- 5 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- Yes: the tsunami it caused
- Epicenter
- 11.910° N, 88.897° W
- Country
- Nicaragua
The toll
The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this earthquake.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Felt (V) at Usulutan; (IV) at Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Rosario, Mejicanos, Nuevo Cuscatlan, San Salvador and Santa Tecla; (III) at San Pedro and Santa Ana, El Salvador. Also felt (IV) at Armenta and (III) at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Felt (III) at San Antonio de Desamparados and San Jose, Costa Rica; at Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala City and Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala; at Managua, Nicaragua. Felt throughout El Salvador and in much of southern Guatemala, southwestern Honduras, western Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Chinandega, Chinandega, Nicaragua - CDI: 5; Sonsonate, Sonsonate, El Salvador - CDI: 5; San Francisco Menéndez, Ahuachapán, El Salvador - CDI: 5; Juayúa, Sonsonate, El Salvador - CDI: 5; Santo Tomás, San Salvador, El Salvador - CDI: 5 (reference #13456)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- May 6, 1951, Jucuapa, El Salvador
- January 13, 2001, El Salvador, Guatemala
- March 4, 1873, Santa Tomas, San Vicente, El Salvador
- December 19, 1936, San Vicente, El Salvador
- February 13, 2001, San Juan Tepezontes-San Vicente-Cojutep, El Salvador
- April 11, 1873, Salvador,san Vicente, El Salvador
- February 26, 1902, El Salvador-Guatemala
- September 2, 1992, Masachapa, Costa Rica, Nicaragua
- May 3, 1965, San Marcos, El Salvador
- June 19, 1982, San Salvador, Guatemala, El Salvador
- May 21, 1932, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua
- October 14, 2014, Gulf of Fonseca, El Salvador
- May 30, 2019, San Salvador, El Salvador
- May 8, 2001, Conchagua, El Salvador
- August 27, 2012, Off the Coast, Nicaragua
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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 10211.