EveryQuake

Earthquakes in Chimborazo

552 earthquakes catalogued in and around Chimborazo between 1924 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
No records in the last 30 days.
552
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1924–2026
record span
4.27
mean magnitude
177
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

019391924: 1 (M5+)192419321935: 1 (M5+)194019481949: 1 (M5+)1956: 1 (M5+)19561963: 1 (M5+)1964: 1 (M4–5)1964: 2 (M5+)19641965: 3 (M4–5)1965: 2 (M5+)1966: 3 (M4–5)1967: 1 (M5+)1968: 1 (M4–5)1969: 1 (M4–5)1970: 1 (M3–4)1970: 2 (M4–5)1970: 1 (M5+)1971: 2 (M4–5)1971: 2 (M5+)1972: 3 (M5+)19721973: 5 (M4–5)1973: 2 (M5+)1976: 1 (M5+)1977: 1 (M4–5)1978: 4 (M4–5)1979: 2 (M4–5)1979: 1 (M5+)1980: 1 (M4–5)1980: 2 (M5+)19801981: 3 (M4–5)1981: 1 (M5+)1982: 1 (M4–5)1982: 5 (M5+)1983: 1 (M4–5)1983: 1 (M5+)1984: 2 (M4–5)1984: 1 (M5+)1985: 2 (M4–5)1985: 1 (M5+)1986: 5 (M4–5)1987: 2 (M5+)1988: 2 (M5+)19881989: 1 (M4–5)1990: 1 (M3–4)1990: 1 (M4–5)1991: 2 (M4–5)1991: 1 (M5+)1992: 2 (M4–5)1993: 15 (M4–5)1993: 1 (M5+)1994: 9 (M4–5)1994: 2 (M5+)1995: 33 (M4–5)1995: 6 (M5+)1996: 20 (M4–5)1996: 2 (M5+)19961997: 1 (M3–4)1997: 20 (M4–5)1997: 1 (M5+)1998: 1 (M3–4)1998: 10 (M4–5)1998: 1 (M5+)1999: 1 (M4–5)1999: 2 (M5+)2000: 21 (M4–5)2001: 1 (M3–4)2001: 19 (M4–5)2002: 1 (M3–4)2002: 9 (M4–5)2003: 1 (M<3)2003: 7 (M4–5)2003: 1 (M5+)2004: 1 (M3–4)2004: 17 (M4–5)2004: 1 (M5+)20042005: 25 (M4–5)2005: 1 (M5+)2006: 11 (M4–5)2006: 1 (M5+)2007: 5 (M4–5)2007: 4 (M5+)2008: 18 (M4–5)2009: 8 (M4–5)2009: 2 (M5+)2010: 1 (M3–4)2010: 13 (M4–5)2010: 1 (M5+)2011: 5 (M4–5)2012: 2 (M3–4)2012: 1 (M4–5)20122013: 4 (M4–5)2014: 1 (M3–4)2014: 8 (M4–5)2014: 1 (M5+)2015: 1 (M4–5)2015: 1 (M5+)2016: 1 (M3–4)2016: 2 (M4–5)2017: 4 (M3–4)2017: 3 (M4–5)2017: 2 (M5+)2018: 12 (M3–4)2018: 4 (M4–5)2018: 1 (M5+)2019: 2 (M<3)2019: 8 (M3–4)2019: 6 (M4–5)2019: 3 (M5+)2020: 1 (M<3)2020: 7 (M3–4)2020: 4 (M4–5)2020: 2 (M5+)20202021: 4 (M<3)2021: 11 (M3–4)2021: 4 (M4–5)2022: 1 (M<3)2022: 9 (M3–4)2022: 5 (M4–5)2022: 1 (M5+)2023: 1 (M<3)2023: 6 (M3–4)2023: 4 (M4–5)2023: 3 (M5+)2024: 4 (M<3)2024: 5 (M3–4)2024: 5 (M4–5)2025: 2 (M<3)2025: 8 (M3–4)2025: 3 (M4–5)2025: 3 (M5+)2026: 1 (M<3)2026: 6 (M3–4)2026: 2 (M4–5)2026
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+

Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.

Largest earthquakes

Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
7.522.02.2019 10:17149.9 km197 km
7.427.07.1971 02:02105.6 km187 km
7.112.08.2010 11:54206.6 km164 km
7.016.01.1956 23:3720 km210 km
7.003.10.1995 01:5126.3 km136 km
6.816.11.2007 03:12123.1 km114 km
6.718.03.2023 17:1270.1 km162 km
6.717.05.1971 11:04170.5 km135 km
6.517.09.1965 11:13187.6 km148 km
6.522.07.1924 04:04250 km140 km
6.405.08.1949 19:0815 km88 km
6.403.10.1995 12:4415.1 km142 km
6.322.09.1987 13:4314.2 km121 km
6.207.09.2018 02:12105.1 km48 km
6.228.08.1999 12:40195.3 km145 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
3.528.05.2026 01:399 km52 km
4.006.05.2026 22:0683.6 km36 km
3.029.03.2026 07:5688 km62 km
3.124.03.2026 17:4610 km74 km
2.608.03.2026 03:2211 km51 km
3.502.03.2026 18:417 km57 km
3.522.02.2026 16:3721 km31 km
3.203.01.2026 08:4610.3 km7 km
4.603.01.2026 08:468.2 km14 km
3.513.12.2025 22:1420 km51 km
3.413.12.2025 21:3417 km46 km
4.013.12.2025 09:4010 km39 km
3.706.12.2025 22:5420 km69 km
3.727.09.2025 14:598 km76 km
2.627.09.2025 10:019 km78 km
3.922.09.2025 04:305 km50 km
5.403.09.2025 14:56161.8 km109 km
5.024.08.2025 10:5094.4 km61 km
3.629.06.2025 21:501 km13 km
5.217.06.2025 02:4610 km126 km
3.410.06.2025 23:0816 km14 km
3.628.05.2025 09:2471 km72 km
2.518.05.2025 16:565 km65 km
4.019.04.2025 01:5768 km92 km
4.905.02.2025 08:21147.7 km69 km
4.504.12.2024 20:5010 km39 km
4.324.11.2024 00:56112.4 km72 km
2.308.11.2024 23:284 km72 km
2.703.11.2024 01:36106.8 km22 km
3.424.09.2024 19:41125.8 km17 km
3.913.08.2024 00:2982 km29 km
4.421.06.2024 06:0289.8 km71 km
3.917.06.2024 19:515 km74 km
4.221.05.2024 07:145 km67 km
3.521.05.2024 07:1210 km75 km
4.411.04.2024 00:45143 km72 km
2.602.04.2024 18:347 km66 km
3.023.02.2024 05:166 km77 km
2.620.01.2024 05:0212 km32 km
4.228.12.2023 22:44164.9 km74 km
3.520.12.2023 13:21118 km58 km
4.529.11.2023 06:5769 km84 km
4.003.09.2023 21:08153.5 km51 km
5.028.07.2023 01:38140.3 km64 km
3.923.07.2023 19:2423 km31 km
3.527.05.2023 02:2810 km30 km
3.527.05.2023 02:145 km35 km
5.208.05.2023 00:5192.4 km92 km
2.522.04.2023 21:034 km69 km
6.718.03.2023 17:1270.1 km162 km
3.623.02.2023 19:5075 km76 km
4.118.01.2023 23:43162.3 km68 km
3.710.01.2023 00:1087 km45 km
4.018.11.2022 11:035 km55 km
5.017.11.2022 04:19138.5 km50 km
3.524.10.2022 23:355 km74 km
3.405.09.2022 08:3225 km55 km
3.604.09.2022 01:2610 km54 km
3.502.09.2022 23:105 km52 km
3.530.08.2022 03:565 km53 km

Method and sources

What this page counts
An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
Location precision
Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
Magnitude scales
The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
Deduplication
The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
Updates
Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
Sources
USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
Reporting an error
If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.