Significant Earthquakes of the 700s
Every significant earthquake NOAA records from 700 to 799.
Map
Every one of the 700s with a location. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
Every earthquake
Oldest first.
- May 12, 701, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- 704, Southern Libya
- August 2, 704, Kumanonada, Japan
- March 20, 713, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- 715, Iznik, Turkey
- August 25, 716, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- October 720, Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom
- March 19, 734, Tianshui, Gansu Province, China
- June 21, 735, Bayotsdzor, Armenia
- October 26, 740, Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey
- 742, Syria, Israel, Asia
- 743, Eivan-E-Kay, Iran
- 743, Caspian Sea, Russia
- June 30, 744, Shimabara, Yatsushiro, Higo, Japan
- June 5, 745, Mino, Japan
- June 9, 745, Osaka Bay, Japan
- January 18, 746, Teverya (Tiberias), Ariha (Jericho), Israel
- August 31, 748, Dimashq (Damascus), Syria
- January 25, 749, NE of Tharthar River, Jazirah, Iraq
- 758, Antakya, Halab, Turkey, Palestine, Syria, Israel
- 763, Khurasan, Iran
- July 20, 766, N. Kagoshima Bay, Japan
- 777, Shulu, Ningjin, Hebei Province, China
- 778, Treviso, Italy
- 778, Hoang Kin Chan, Hunan Province, China
- 780, Kyongju, South Korea
- March 8, 788, Ankang, Fangxian, Shaanxi Province, China
- April 30, 793, Verona, Italy
- April 7, 796, Crete, Greece
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.