List of earthquakes

in India

The Indian subcont inent has a hist ory of eart hquakes. The reason for t he int ensit y and high
frequency of eart hquakes is t he Indian plat e driving int o Asia at a rat e of approximat ely
47 mm/year.[1] The following is a list of major earthquakes which have occurred in India,
including t hose wit h epicent res out side India t hat caused significant damage or casualt ies in t he
count ry.

Earthquakes
The list pert ains t o t he Indian Republic since 1947, and t he Indian subcont inent before t hat .
 Total damage
Date Location Magnitude MMI Deaths Injuries
/ notes

Buildings
2023- Nort h-India, damaged, all [2][3]
5.7 Mw VIII 153 375
11-03 Nepal casualt ies in
Nepal

2022- Baikunt hpur, [4][5]

4.6 Mw IV 5 Minor
07-28 Chhat t isgarh

2021- Moderat e [6][7]

Assam 6.0 Mw VII 2 12
04-28 damage

2019- [8][9]
Maharasht ra 4.1 Mw IV 1 1 Minor
07-24

2018- [10]
Assam 5.3 Mw VI 1 25
09-12

2017- [11]
Ut t arakhand 5.1 Mw IV 1
02-06

2017- India,
5.7 Mw V 3 8
01-03 Bangladesh

India,
2016-
Myanmar, 6.7 Mw VII 11 200
01-04
Bangladesh

Afghanist an,
2015-
India, 7.7 Mw VII 399 2,536
10-26
Pakist an

2015-
Nepal, India 7.3 Mw VIII 218 3,500+
05-12

2015-
Nepal, India 7.8 Mw X 8,964 21,952 $10 billion
04-25

Buildings
2014- offshore [12]
6.0 Mw IV 2 250 damaged/Power
05-21 Odisha
out ages
 Total damage
Date Location Magnitude MMI Deaths Injuries
/ notes

2013- [13]
Kashmir 5.7 Mw 3 90 $19.5 million
05-01

2012- [14]
Delhi 5.2 Mw V 5
03-05

2011- [15]
Sikkim 3.5 Mw III 2
10-29

2011- Gangt ok,

6.9 Mw VII >111
09-18 Sikkim

2011- [16]
Delhi 4.3 Mw V 1 Minor damage
09-07

Diglipur,
2010- Andaman and Buildings [17][18]
6.6 Mw VI 10
03-30 Nicobar damaged
Islands

2009- Andaman Tsunami warning

7.5 Mw VIII
08-10 Islands issued

2009- Buildings [19]

Jharkhand 4.1 Mw V 5
03-26 damaged

Sat ara
2008- 1,500 buildings [20]
dist rict , 5.0 Mw VI 1 20
09-16 damaged.
Maharasht ra

2008- Buildings [21]

West Bengal 4.3 Mb 1 50
02-06 damaged

2007- Buildings [22]

Gujarat 5.1 Mw V 1 5
11-06 damaged

2006- Alwar dist rict , Minor damage t o [23]

4.0 Mw 1 2
11-29 Rajast han propert y

2006- Buildings [24]

Gujarat 5.5 Mw VI 7
03-07 damaged
 Total damage
Date Location Magnitude MMI Deaths Injuries
/ notes

2006- [25]
Sikkim 5.3 Mw V 2 2 Landslide
02-14

2005- Building [26]

Ut t arakhand 5.1 Mw VI 1 3
12-14 dest royed

2005- 86,000– 69,000– 2.8 million

Kashmir 7.6 Mw VIII
10-08 87,351 75,266 displaced

2002- Andaman Dest ruct ive [27]

6.5 Mw 2
09-13 Islands t sunami

2001- offshore [28][29]

5.2 Mw V 3 Minor damage
09-25 Tamil Nadu

2001- 13,805–
Gujarat 7.7 Mw X ~166,800 $10 billion
01-26 20,023

Chamoli
1999-
dist rict - 6.8 Mw VIII ~103
03-29
Ut t arakhand

1997- Bangladesh,
6.1 Mw 23 200
11-21 India

Jabalpur,
1997- 1,000–
Madhya 5.8 Mw VIII 38–56 $37–143 million
05-22 1,500
Pradesh

1993- Lat ur,

6.2 Mw VIII 9,748 30,000
09-30 Maharasht ra

1991- Ut t arkashi, 768– 1,383–

6.8 Mw IX
10-20 Ut t arakhand 2,000 1,800

1988- Udayapur, 709–

6.9 Mw VIII
08-21 Nepal 1,450

1988- Myanmar, [30]

7.3 Mw VII 3 12
08-06 India
[31]
1988- Bangladesh, 5.9 Mw 2 100
 Total damage
Date Location Magnitude MMI Deaths Injuries
/ notes
02-06 India

1986- India, [32]

5.3 Ms 6 30 Severe damage
04-26 Pakist an

1984- Cachar [33]

5.6 Mb 20 100 Severe damage
12-30 dist rict

1982- Moderat e [34]

Lit t le Nicobar 6.3 Ms Some
01-20 damage

1980- Limit ed damage / [35]

Kashmir 4.8 Ms Few
08-23 doublet

1980- Moderat e [36]

Kashmir 4.9 Ms 15 40
08-23 damage / doublet

Nepal,
1980- [37]
Pit horagarh 6.5 Ms 200 Many $245 million
07-29
dist rict

1975- Himachal
6.8 Ms IX 47
01-19 Pradesh

1970- Bharuch Moderat e [38]

5.4 Mb 26 200
03-23 dist rict damage

1967-
Maharasht ra 6.6 Mw VIII 177–180 2,272 $400,000
12-11

1966- [39]
Nort h India 5.6 15 Limit ed damage
08-15

1966- [40]
Nepal, India 5.3 Ms VIII 80 100 $1 million
06-27

1963- Moderat e [41]

Kashmir 5.3 80
09-02 damage

1960- Moderat e [42]

Nort h India
08-27 damage
 Total damage
Date Location Magnitude MMI Deaths Injuries
/ notes

1956-
Gujarat 6.1 Ms IX 115 254
07-21

1954- India, Moderat e [43]

7.4 Ms
03-21 Myanmar damage

1950- 1,500–
Assam, Tibet 8.6 Mw XI
08-15 3,300

1947-
India, China 7.3 Mw
07-29

1941- Andaman Dest ruct ive

7.7–8.1 Mw 8,000
06-26 Islands t sunami

1935- Quet t a, 30,000–

7.7 Mw X
05-31 Baluchist an 60,000

1934- 6,000–
Nepal 8.0 Mw XI
01-15 10,700

1932- Assam, Moderat e [44]

7.0 Ms
08-14 Myanmar damage

1930-
Assam 7.1 Mw IX
07-02

1905-
Kangra 7.8 Ms IX >20,000
04-04

1897-
Shillong, India 8.0 Mw X 1,542
06-12

1885- [45]
Kashmir Severe damage
06-06

1885- [46]
Srinagar 3,000 Ext reme damage
05-30

1881- Andaman Significant in

7.9 Mw VII
12-31 Islands seismology
 Total damage
Date Location Magnitude MMI Deaths Injuries
/ notes

1869- Assam,
7.4 Mw VII 2 Severe damage
01-10 Cachar

1845- Rann of Limit ed damage / [47]

6.3 Ms VIII Few
06-19 Kut ch t sunami

1843- Deccan Moderat e [48]

04-01 Plat eau damage

1833- Bihar, [49]

8.0 Ms Severe damage
08-26 Kat hmandu

1828- [50]
Kashmir 1,000 Severe damage
06-06

1819- Formed t he Allah

Gujarat 7.7–8.2 Mw XI >1,543
06-16 Bund

1803- [51]
Ut t arakhand 7.8 Mw IX 300 Severe damage
09-01

1618- [52]
Bombay IX 2,000 Severe damage
05-26

Kashmir
1555- 600–
Valley, 7.6–8.0
09-?? 60,000
Kashmir

1505- Saldang,
8.2–8.8 6,000
06-06 Karnali zone

Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was

developed for stand-alone articles. The principles described also apply to lists. In summary, only damaging,
detrimental, or deadly events should be recorded.
See also

Earthquake zones of India

Geology of India

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Further reading

Saikia, Arupjyoti (2020), "Earthquakes

and the Environmental Transformation
of a Floodplain Landscape: The
Brahmaputra Valley and the Earthquakes
of 1897 and 1950", Environment and
History, 26: 51–77,
doi:10.3197/096734019X157554029855
50 (https://doi.org/10.3197%2F0967340
19X15755402985550) ,
 S2CID 212872219 (https://api.semantics
cholar.org/CorpusID:212872219)

External links

Earthquake Reports, India

Meteorological Department (on line) (htt
ps://web.archive.org/web/20120428025
800/http://www.imd.gov.in/section/seis
mo/static/signif.htm)

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