16 January 1979 9:50 UT The day Reza Pahlevi left Iran, Mw6.7 earthquake struck Boznabad, South Khorasan, killing at least 199 people, maybe 1000. Mud-brick homes were deadly. Part of 1968-97 EQ sequences. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... doi.org/10.1111/j.13... nyshistoricnewspapers.org

15 January 1993 11:06 UT Mw7.6 intermediate-depth earthquake hit Kushiro, eastern Hokkaido, Japan, causing landslides and much damage, killing two persons and injuring other 614. Felt as far as Tokyo and the Kurile (Russia). earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... nyshistoricnewspapers.org

15 January 1968 2:01 UT Mw6.4 earthquake (in a sequence) destroyed several towns in the Belice valley, Sicily (Italy), killing at least 231 people. Thousands of homeless. Some towns rebuilt in new locations. emidius.mi.ingv.it/ASMI/event/1... archiviolastampa.it nyshistoricnewspapers.org

15 January 1931 1:50 UT (18:50 of 14th LT) M7.8 earthquake devastated Oaxaca, Mexico, killing 114 people. Felt across central and southern Mexico. Intraplate, similar to a M7 1999 EQ. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti... doi.org/10.1785/0220... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov memoria.bn.br

14 January 1885 17:00 UT M6 earthquake hit the area of Tianshui, southeastern Gansu, northern China, collapsing houses and killing at least 80 people. Also felt in the neighbouring province of Shaanxi. doi.org/10.1785/BSSA... archive.org/details/nort... gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

14 January 1546 14:00 UT M6.0 earthquake at Dead Sea Transform Fault hit Nablus, Palestine, collapsing buildings and killing 600 people. Felt in Palestine, Israel and Jordan, damage as far as Gaza. Tsunami? emidius.eu/GEH/info/?en... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... doi.org/10.1785/0220...

14 January 2018 9:19 UT Mw7.1 earthquake at interface of South American and Nazca plates hit offshore Acarí district, Caravelí province, southern Peru, damaging houses and causing landslides. Two people killed. Felt as far as Lima. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_i...

14 January 1978 3:35 UT Mw6.7 earthquake between Izu Peninsula (Honshu) and Oshima island, Japan, caused landslides, destroyed many houses and killed 25 people. It also ruptured a dam with cyanide wastes. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/h... nyshistoricnewspapers.org

13 January 2001 17:34 UT Mw7.7 subduction earthquake offshore El Salvador killed 952 people, chiefly due to landslides in La Libertad department. Felt from Mexico City to Colombia. One month later another deadly EQ hit the country. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti... cdnc.ucr.edu

13 January 1804 18:05 UT Mw6.0 earthquake at Sea of Alboran (large aftershock on 21 - @Paco_Almanzor) caused destruction in Dalías, Almeria prov. (southern Spain), killing two persons. Felt as far as Madrid. emidius.eu/AHEAD/event/... ign.es/web/libros-d... boe.es/datos/pdfs/B...

13 January 1960 15:40 UT M7.5 earthquake near Arequipa, southern Peru, destroyed Chuquibamba and other villages in the region, killing 63 people. Felt from Lima to La Paz (Bolivia). earthquake.usgs.gov repositorio.ingemmet.gob.pe repositorio.igp.gob.pe/handle/20.50... nyshistoricnewspapers.org

13 January 1832 13:00 UT Mw6.4 earthquake in the Valle del Topino, Perugia province, central Italy, destroyed many houses in Budino, Foligno and other towns and villages, killing 39 people. Felt as far as Parma and Ferrara. emidius.mi.ingv.it/ASMI/event/1... gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/

13 January 1915 6:53 UT In the middle of WWI, Mw6.7 earthquake entirely destroyed the city of Avezzano and other towns in L' Aquila province, central Italy, killing 32,610 people. Felt from Milan to Otranto. emidius.mi.ingv.it/ASMI/event/1... doi.org/10.1785/BSSA... nyshistoricnewspapers.org

12 January 1945 18:38 UT (3:38 of the 13th LT) M6.6 earthquake at Mikawa Bay (southern Honshu, Japan) killed 2000 people. Due to WWII censorship, only much later the extent of the catastrophe was known. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R10000... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

12 January 1856 11:50 UT M5.5-6.0 earthquake with epicenter still uncertain caused much damage throughout Algarve (Portugal), killing two people in Tavira and injuring others. Also felt in Lisbon and Seville. emidius.eu/AHEAD/event/... bndigital.bnportugal.gov.pt arquivo.cm-gaia.pt

12 January 1743 9-10:00 UT Mw6.6 earthquake severely hit the Laguna and Quezon provinces, southern Luzon, Philippines, destroying churches and monasteries and killing 3 or 4 people. emidius.eu/GEH/info/?en... doi.org/10.1785/BSSA... doi.org/10.1016/S004... doi.org/10.26754/ojs...

12 January 1956 5:46 UT Mw5.8 earthquake hit Dunaharaszti, near Budapest, Hungary, leaving more than 3000 houses uninhabitable and killing two people. The deadliest XXth century Hungarian EQ. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... pp.bme.hu/ci/article/v... doi.org/10.1785/0120... e-newspaperarchives.ch

11 January 1997 20:28 UT Mw7.2 earthquake at the coast of Michoacan, Mexico, caused damage and killed one person. Also felt in Mexico City, Guerrero, Colima and Jalisco. Located just beneath the rupture of 1985 EQ. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... researchgate.net/publication/... cdnc.ucr.edu

11 January 1693 13:30 UT Mw7.3 earthquake at southeast of Sicily (Italy) destroyed Catania, Augusta and other towns, killing 54,000 people. Also felt in Malta and Calabria. Foreshock on the 9th. Disastrous tsunami. emidius.mi.ingv.it/ASMI/event/1... gallica.bnf.fr anno.onb.ac.at

11 January 1839 9:55 UT M7.8 megathrust earthquake completely destroyed Fort-de-France, Martinique, killing maybe 4000 people (slaves weren't counted). Felt in the whole Lesser Antilles and in Guyana. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... doi.org/10.1111/j.13... nyshistoricnewspapers.org

11 January 2022 1:08 UT Mw6.6 earthquake offshore northwest Cyprus damaging houses in Paphos. Felt over a very wide area, including Cyprus, southern Turkey, coast of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt, where three people were killed. emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_i... earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

10 January 1936 4:30 UT (23:30 of 9th LT) Mw5.6 earthquake severely hit Nariño department, Colombia, near the border with Ecuador. Landslides buried La Chorrera and other villages, killing at least 250 people. sish.sgc.gov.co/visor/ news.google.com/newspapers nyshistoricnewspapers.org

10 January 1998 3:51 UT Mw5.7 earthquake hit the area of Zhangbei-Shangyi, NW Hebei province, near the border with Inner Mongolia, in northern China, destroying or damaging 70,000 houses and killing 70 people. Felt as far as Beijing. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... news.google.com/newspapers

9 January 1878 20:00 UT (7:00 of 10th LT) Mw7.5 earthquake generated a 6 meter tsunami that hit the coast of Tanna island, Vanuatu. Landslides and damage. Source uncertain: Coral Sea or Yasur volcano? emidius.eu/GEH/info/?en... horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/

9 January 1038 M7.25 earthquake along Xizhoushan Fault hit Dingxing county, Shanxi prov., northern China, causing great landslides, destroying many houses and killing 32,300 people. emidius.eu/GEH/info/?en... dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120... doi.org/10.1016/j.js... gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

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9 January 1925 17:39 UT Mw6.0 earthquake near Ardahan (northeastern Turkey), at the border with Georgia. Also felt in Armenia. Several villages entirely destroyed, 200 people killed and thousands homeless. doi.org/10.1007/s109... enguriproject.unimib.it/index9b24.ht... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

9 January 1857 16:20 UT Mw7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake at San Andreas Fault, Southern California. Felt as far as Las Vegas and Gulf of California (Mexico). Due to the sparse population, just two people killed. usgs.gov/natural-haza... doi.org/10.1785/BSSA... cdnc.ucr.edu

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8 January 2006 11:35 UT Mw6.7 earthquake along Hellenic Arc, near Cythera island, southern Greece, injured three people and caused damage. Felt as far as southern Italy and Egypt. Had electromagnetic precursor? doi.org/10.1785/gssr... nhess.copernicus.org/articles/7/6... archive.org/details/unit...

8 January 1817 9:30 UT Mw7.4 earthquake offshore Charleston, SC, USA, at the Bermuda Triangle zone. Felt along US Atlantic coast, from Baltimore to Savannah, and 400 km inland. Small tsunami. EQs could explain ship disappearances? doi.org/10.1785/0220... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

7 January 2025 1:05 UT Mw7.1 earthquake at Dingri county, southern Tibet, China, destroyed 000s of houses, killing 126 or even 400 people. Damage reached Nepal and Bihar (India). Felt as far as Dhaka. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... www.nature.com/articles/s44... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ti...

7 January 1962 10:03 UT Mw6.2 earthquake offshore Makarska, Croatia, in the Dalmatian coast, followed by 100 aftershocks in the next week. Sequence destroyed 2290 houses and killed 6 people. Minor tsunami. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... doi.org/10.1016/S026... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

7 January 2020 8:24 UT Mw6.4 earthquake south of Puerto Rico, part of a seismic swarm that lasted for more than 4 months and caused the death of four persons and much damage, leaving 8000 people homeless. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/e... abc.es/archivo/peri...

7 January 1901 0:29 UT (19:29 of 6th LT) M7.2 earthquake at Nazca Trench hit offshore Salinas, Ecuador, killing 9 people at the Ecuatorian coast. Felt in ships. This trench segment has been relatively quiet. doi.org/10.1785/0120... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov nyshistoricnewspapers.org

6 January 1785 24:00 UT M7.5 earthquake, at the Chixoy-Polochic Fault, destroyed many buildings in the departments of Alta and Baja Verapaz and Izabal, in eastern Guatemala. doi.org/10.3133/ofr8... This fault was also responsible for the M7.6 1816 EQ 👇 bsky.app/profile/jose...

6 January 1928 19:32 UT M6.9 earthquake hit Subukia, Kenya. One of the largest of eastern Africa but, as the population was sparse, there were no casualities. One year of aftershocks. link.springer.com/article/10.1... academic.oup.com/gji/article/... trove.nla.gov.au hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com

6 January 1887 17:00-18:00 UT M~5 earthquake struck Jemmal, near Monastir, in the eastern coast of Tunisia, destroying several houses and killing seven people. Preceded one day by a foreshock. doi.org/10.1785/0220... link.springer.com/article/10.1... gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/

6 January 1898 4:45 UT M7.0 earthquake severely hit Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia, destroying many buildings and killing 126 people. Felt as far as Banda Neira. doi.org/10.1785/0120... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/D... Worse in 1674 👇 bsky.app/profile/jose...

5 January 1843 21:30 UT (4:30 of 6th LT) Mw7.5 earthquake and tsunami caused great damage and killed many people in Nias island, off NW Sumatra, Indonesia. Felt also in Singapore. Bigger EQs in 1861 and 2005. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... doi.org/10.1029/JB09... eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/

5 January 1900 19:00 UT (2:00 of 6th LT) M7.0 earthquake at the Musi segment of the Sumatran Fault, near Bengkulu, southern Sumatra, Indonesia. Villages destroyed, killing at least 24 people. Felt as far as Jakarta. doi.org/10.1785/0120... doi.org/10.1785/0120... eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/

5 January 1991 14:57 UT Mw7.0 earthquake at the Sagaing Fault hit near Tagaung, northern Myanmar, causing landslides, damaging houses and killing two people. Felt from Silchar (India) to Bangkok. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... news.google.com/newspapers Larger in 1946.

5 January 1974 8:34 UT M6.3-6.6 earthquake near Mariatana, ESE of Lima, Peru. Rockslides, panic and villages destroyed, killing 10 people. Felt from Trujillo to Nazca. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... repositorio.ingemmet.gob.pe/bitstream/20... repositorio.igp.gob.pe/handle/20.50... cdnc.ucr.edu

4 January 1699 19:30 UT (2:30 of 5th LT) Mw7.4-7.8 earthquake at Java, Indonesia, very damaging in western Java and south Sumatra. Death toll at least 128. Megathrust or intraslab EQ? pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art... hathitrust.org boe.es books.google

4 January 1970 17:01 UT (1:01 of 5th LT) Mw7.1 earthquake at Qujiang Fault hit Tonghai county, Yunnan, SE China, causing landslides and killing 15,621 people. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com Other EQ near in 1913 👇 bsky.app/profile/jose...

4 January 1917 16:55 UT (0:55 of 5th LT) M6.2 earthquake, the deadliest of the Aug. 1916 - Jan. 1917 sequence, hit near Puli, Nantou county, central Taiwan. Globally 1028 buildings destroyed and 71 people killed. doi.org/10.1785/0220... nyshistoricnewspapers.org Near to a 2013 EQ duplet.

4 January 1500 16-18:00 UT M≥7.0 earthquake along Xiaojiang fault hit Yiliang county, eastern Yunnan, southern China, levelling many buildings and killing 10,000 people. One month of aftershocks. Other EQs near in 1725 and 1833... doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

4 January 1896 16:00 M6.7 earthquake (preceded by M5.3 foreshock on Jan. 2) along Sangavar Fault destroyed Sangabad, Givi and other villages, Khalkhal county, Ardabil province, NW Iran. Global death toll 1100. Felt as far as Teheran. doi.org/10.1785/BSSA... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

4 January 1935 14:42-16:20 UT Mw6.3-6.0 earthquake doublet hit Marmara island, northwestern Turkey, also ruining villages in the neighbouring islands and in the Kapidag peninsula, killing five people. Felt as far as Sofia, Salonica and Izmir. doi.org/10.1002/eqe.... e-newspaperarchives.ch