Significant Earthquakes of 2020

33 earthquakes

Every significant earthquake NOAA records in 2020. Every quake the USGS located in 2020.

Map

The significant earthquakes of 2020. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.

Every earthquake

January 7, 2020, Ponce,san Juan, Puerto Rico, US TerritoriesM6.4 · 4 deaths · $800 million · 300 houses destroyed · tsunami
January 19, 2020, Xinjiang Province, ChinaM6 · 1 death
January 24, 2020, Elazig and Malatya Provinces, TurkeyM6.7 · 41 deaths · 76 houses destroyed
January 28, 2020, Granma, Cayman Is, Jamaica, CubaM7.7 · $90 million · 1 house destroyed · tsunami
February 23, 2020, Van, Iran, TurkeyM6 · 10 deaths · 255 houses destroyed
March 10, 2020, Sukabumi, Bogor, Java, IndonesiaM5
March 14, 2020, Kermadec IslandsM6.4 · tsunami
March 18, 2020, Utah, United StatesM5.7 · $132 million · 2 houses destroyed
March 22, 2020, Zagreb, Croatia, Balkans NWM5.3 · 1 death · $1.8 billion · 6,305 houses destroyed
March 25, 2020, Kuril Islands, RussiaM7.5 · tsunami
March 31, 2020, Custer County, Idaho, United StatesM6.5
April 1, 2020, Qinghai Province, ChinaM5.4 · $11.3 million
May 2, 2020, Crete, GreeceM6.6 · tsunami
May 2, 2020, Ponce, Puerto Rico, US TerritoriesM5.4 · $150 million
May 7, 2020, Tehran, Damavand, IranM4.6 · 2 deaths
May 18, 2020, Qiaojia, Yunnan Province, ChinaM5.1 · 4 deaths · $17 million
May 29, 2020, Ijen, Java, Indonesia1 death · tsunami
June 4, 2020, Morotai, North Maluku, IndonesiaM6.4 · 14 houses destroyed
June 7, 2020, Chimbote, Coast, PeruM4.5 · 1 death
June 14, 2020, Bingol, TurkeyM5.9 · 1 death
June 18, 2020, S Of, Raoul, Kermadec Islands, New ZealandM7.4 · tsunami
June 23, 2020, Oaxaca, MexicoM7.4 · 10 deaths · $75 million · tsunami
June 25, 2020, Van, TurkeyM5.4
July 17, 2020, Morobe, Oro, Papua New GuineaM7 · 1 death
July 22, 2020, Alaska, United StatesM7.8 · tsunami
July 27, 2020, Son LA Province, VietnamM4.9
August 7, 2020, Milah, AlgeriaM5
August 9, 2020, Sparta, North Carolina, United StatesM5.1 · 60 houses destroyed
August 18, 2020, Masbate, PhilippinesM6.6 · 2 deaths · $570,000 · 138 houses destroyed
October 19, 2020, Alaska, United StatesM7.6 · tsunami
October 30, 2020, Izmir, Samos, Turkey, GreeceM7 · 118 deaths · $400 million · tsunami
December 27, 2020, Off Coast Central, ChileM6.7 · tsunami
December 29, 2020, Petrinja, Croatia, Balkans NWM6.4 · 8 deaths · $4.2 billion · 1,500 houses destroyed

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.