Significant Earthquakes of the 400s
Every significant earthquake NOAA records from 400 to 499.
Map
Every one of the 400s with a location. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
Every earthquake
Oldest first.
- April 1, 407, Marmara Sea, Turkey
- 412, Utique, Tunisia
- 419, Palestine, Israel
- 425, Jerusalem, Palestine, Ramleh, Egypt, Israel
- 427, Azerbaijan
- 438, Crete, Greece
- October 26, 440, Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey
- January 26, 447, Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey
- September 6, 448, Crete, Greece
- 450, Instanbul (Constantinople), Turkey
- 457, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- September 458, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- April 7, 460, Cyzicus (Erdek), Turkey
- July 22, 460, Yonok-Nagabandhu, Thailand
- 470, Vienne,vivarais,dauphine,velay,forez, France
- September 25, 477, Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey
- September 25, 478, Marmara Sea, Turkey
- 484, Gelibolu (Callipoli), Tenedos, Turkey
- 494, Tarabulus (Tripolis), Syria, Lebanon
- August 4, 499, Jiangsu Province, China
Other centuries
- 2100s BC 1
- 2000s BC 2
- 1600s BC 1
- 1500s BC 1
- 1400s BC 1
- 1300s BC 1
- 1200s BC 1
- 1000s BC 1
- 700s BC 1
- 500s BC 3
- 400s BC 5
- 300s BC 4
- 200s BC 10
- 100s BC 4
- 99 to 1 BC 13
- Years 1 to 99 23
- 100s 18
- 200s 7
- 300s 31
- 400s 20
- 500s 30
- 600s 9
- 700s 29
- 800s 54
- 900s 25
- 1000s 52
- 1100s 50
- 1200s 54
- 1300s 78
- 1400s 92
- 1500s 172
- 1600s 329
- 1700s 410
- 1800s 1,073
- 1900s 2,620
- 2000s 1,472
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.