Every day of June and what happened on it, in any year, with the month’s most significant events.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Rasht, Qazvin, Zanjan, Rudbar, Manjil, Iran. It killed 40,000 people, injured 105,000, destroyed 100,000 houses and did $7.2 billion in damage. It caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis
A tsunami with a source recorded as earthquake and landslide struck Caspian Sea, Iran, with a maximum water height of 2 meters. It killed 40,000 people, injured 105,000, destroyed 100,000 houses and did $7.2 billion in damage.
Earthquakes
The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake occurred on Thursday, 21 June 1990 at 00:30:14 local time in the Caspian Sea region of northern Iran. 4 and a Mercalli Intensity of X (Extreme).
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Earthquakes
5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 on June 15, 1896, on the Sanriku coast in Honshu, Japan. It resulted in two tsunami waves which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths.
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Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Northern Venezuela. It killed 6,509 people, injured 16,740 and did $20 billion in damage. It caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Northwest Venezuela, with a maximum water height of 0.04 meters. It killed 6,509 people, injured 16,740 and did $20 billion in damage.
Earthquakes
An earthquake occurred on June 19, 1718, in Tongwei County, Gansu Province, Qing dynasty, present-day China. 5 earthquake was designated a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing tremendous damage and killing 73,000 people.
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Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Gansu Province, China. It killed 73,000 people and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
Earthquakes
The 1679 Armenia earthquake took place on June 4 in the Yerevan region of Armenia, then part of the Safavid Iran.
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Tornadoes
An F5 tornado touched down in Genesee, Lapeer counties, Michigan and tracked 18.9 miles, 833 yards wide at its widest, killing 116 and injuring 844.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Fukui, Japan. It killed 5,131 people, injured 11,000, destroyed 63,000 houses and did $1 billion in damage.
Billion-dollar disasters
A drought disaster that cost $41 billion in 2024 dollars and killed 1,260, on NOAA’s billion-dollar list. It lasted from June 1, 1980 to November 30, 1980.
Tornadoes
An F5 tornado touched down in Saint Croix, Polk counties, Wisconsin and tracked 30.1 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 117 and injuring 200. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: New Richmond, WI.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck Sanriku, Japan. With the tsunami it caused, it killed 27,122 people, injured 9,247, destroyed 11,000 houses and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
Tsunamis
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck Sanriku, Japan, with a maximum water height of 38.2 meters. It killed 27,122 people, injured 13,247, destroyed 11,000 houses and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
Gathered from this site’s archives: the tornado record (NOAA SPC, and Grazulis before 1950), IBTrACS and the National Hurricane Center, NOAA NCEI’s Storm Events Database, Regional Snowfall Index, billion-dollar disasters list, State Climate Extremes Committee and hazard databases, USGS, NIFC, GFZ Potsdam’s Kp index (CC BY 4.0), the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma, and Wikidata (CC0), with article leads from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0, each credited where it appears. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.