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Earthquakes in Malaysia

1,014 earthquakes catalogued in and around Malaysia between 1904 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
2.8
Latest earthquake · depth 3 km
02.08.2026 04:22 UTC · from centre 924 km
1,014
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1904–2026
record span
3.86
mean magnitude
622
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

0641281904: 1 (M5+)19041907: 1 (M5+)19141920: 1 (M5+)1921: 1 (M5+)1923: 2 (M5+)1924: 1 (M5+)19241926: 1 (M5+)1927: 1 (M5+)1930: 1 (M5+)1931: 1 (M5+)1934: 1 (M5+)19341936: 2 (M5+)1941: 2 (M5+)19441951: 1 (M5+)19541964: 3 (M5+)19641965: 4 (M5+)1966: 1 (M4–5)1966: 3 (M5+)1968: 1 (M4–5)1968: 1 (M5+)1970: 1 (M4–5)1970: 1 (M5+)1971: 3 (M5+)1972: 1 (M4–5)1973: 2 (M4–5)1973: 2 (M5+)1974: 1 (M4–5)1974: 1 (M5+)19741976: 3 (M4–5)1976: 11 (M5+)1977: 1 (M4–5)1977: 2 (M5+)1978: 1 (M4–5)1979: 3 (M4–5)1980: 4 (M4–5)1980: 3 (M5+)1981: 5 (M4–5)1981: 1 (M5+)1982: 5 (M4–5)1983: 5 (M4–5)1983: 3 (M5+)1984: 6 (M4–5)1984: 1 (M5+)19841986: 4 (M4–5)1987: 3 (M4–5)1987: 1 (M5+)1988: 1 (M4–5)1988: 2 (M5+)1989: 2 (M3–4)1989: 6 (M4–5)1989: 2 (M5+)1990: 2 (M4–5)1991: 1 (M3–4)1991: 6 (M4–5)1991: 1 (M5+)1992: 6 (M4–5)1993: 3 (M4–5)1994: 4 (M4–5)1994: 2 (M5+)19941995: 16 (M4–5)1995: 2 (M5+)1996: 2 (M3–4)1996: 9 (M4–5)1996: 3 (M5+)1997: 1 (M3–4)1997: 28 (M4–5)1997: 4 (M5+)1998: 17 (M4–5)1998: 5 (M5+)1999: 3 (M4–5)1999: 3 (M5+)2000: 1 (M3–4)2000: 6 (M4–5)2000: 1 (M5+)2001: 10 (M4–5)2001: 1 (M5+)2002: 10 (M4–5)2002: 1 (M5+)2003: 5 (M4–5)2004: 9 (M4–5)2004: 1 (M5+)20042005: 1 (M<3)2005: 5 (M3–4)2005: 16 (M4–5)2005: 2 (M5+)2006: 1 (M<3)2006: 3 (M3–4)2006: 16 (M4–5)2006: 4 (M5+)2007: 2 (M<3)2007: 1 (M3–4)2007: 4 (M4–5)2007: 4 (M5+)2008: 1 (M<3)2008: 4 (M3–4)2008: 11 (M4–5)2008: 3 (M5+)2009: 1 (M3–4)2009: 6 (M4–5)2009: 1 (M5+)2010: 1 (M<3)2010: 10 (M4–5)2010: 2 (M5+)2011: 12 (M4–5)2012: 1 (M3–4)2012: 7 (M4–5)2012: 1 (M5+)2013: 7 (M4–5)2014: 4 (M3–4)2014: 12 (M4–5)20142015: 2 (M<3)2015: 17 (M3–4)2015: 16 (M4–5)2015: 6 (M5+)2016: 12 (M4–5)2017: 1 (M<3)2017: 4 (M3–4)2017: 8 (M4–5)2017: 1 (M5+)2018: 2 (M3–4)2018: 15 (M4–5)2018: 2 (M5+)2019: 11 (M3–4)2019: 13 (M4–5)2020: 4 (M<3)2020: 12 (M3–4)2020: 12 (M4–5)2020: 4 (M5+)2021: 3 (M<3)2021: 14 (M3–4)2021: 14 (M4–5)2022: 3 (M<3)2022: 16 (M3–4)2022: 15 (M4–5)2022: 2 (M5+)2023: 22 (M<3)2023: 23 (M3–4)2023: 12 (M4–5)2023: 2 (M5+)2024: 30 (M<3)2024: 33 (M3–4)2024: 12 (M4–5)2024: 1 (M5+)20242025: 67 (M<3)2025: 48 (M3–4)2025: 13 (M4–5)2026: 88 (M<3)2026: 27 (M3–4)2026: 3 (M4–5)2026: 1 (M5+)
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
7.901.01.1996 08:0530.9 km1226 km
7.628.09.2018 10:0215.9 km1260 km
7.314.08.1968 22:1416.8 km1229 km
7.104.02.1971 15:3333.2 km1255 km
7.122.02.2026 16:57607.7 km812 km
7.028.10.1904 13:510 km585 km
6.819.04.1923 03:0935 km900 km
6.728.06.1926 03:2315 km993 km
6.627.03.1970 18:3622 km1177 km
6.621.05.1998 05:3442.2 km1201 km
6.514.05.1921 11:1735 km1120 km
6.504.07.1936 08:57200 km1161 km
6.508.02.1941 18:4635 km1221 km
6.425.04.1987 19:2229.1 km1193 km
6.301.12.2006 03:58211 km1150 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
2.802.08.2026 04:223 km924 km
2.801.08.2026 23:1110 km999 km
2.801.08.2026 17:4022 km1086 km
2.831.07.2026 02:5820 km1145 km
2.929.07.2026 07:4310 km887 km
4.325.07.2026 10:5329 km1095 km
3.125.07.2026 04:2911 km888 km
3.218.07.2026 15:4257 km990 km
2.718.07.2026 04:2017 km894 km
2.917.07.2026 11:289 km898 km
2.917.07.2026 07:523 km920 km
3.315.07.2026 19:4717 km987 km
3.615.07.2026 19:1114 km995 km
2.815.07.2026 17:407 km976 km
3.615.07.2026 17:3718 km996 km
2.714.07.2026 11:585 km1139 km
2.809.07.2026 23:305 km952 km
2.905.07.2026 04:229 km919 km
2.718.06.2026 17:4610 km1124 km
2.916.06.2026 05:31185 km1112 km
3.410.06.2026 04:017 km986 km
2.509.06.2026 18:52168 km1140 km
3.907.06.2026 20:3518 km950 km
2.906.06.2026 04:2918 km1044 km
2.704.06.2026 06:308 km966 km
2.523.05.2026 22:0114 km1004 km
3.222.05.2026 10:428 km1057 km
2.717.05.2026 13:5010 km1082 km
2.615.05.2026 12:165 km1035 km
3.015.05.2026 07:505 km894 km
2.714.05.2026 03:505 km1149 km
2.510.05.2026 04:275 km993 km
2.904.05.2026 04:293 km891 km
3.003.05.2026 11:41194 km1095 km
2.501.05.2026 11:2659 km1138 km
3.101.05.2026 00:543 km958 km
2.601.05.2026 00:5230 km1032 km
1.627.04.2026 05:0714 km798 km
2.925.04.2026 06:254 km1134 km
2.924.04.2026 04:0128 km950 km
2.322.04.2026 10:0910 km840 km
3.220.04.2026 19:0210 km829 km
4.120.04.2026 11:0910 km981 km
2.716.04.2026 10:5810 km816 km
2.615.04.2026 02:4610 km936 km
2.514.04.2026 04:2710 km867 km
2.713.04.2026 11:448 km955 km
2.612.04.2026 14:3710 km989 km
2.512.04.2026 07:385 km890 km
2.811.04.2026 05:277 km1002 km
2.711.04.2026 04:335 km949 km
2.711.04.2026 04:245 km912 km
2.709.04.2026 22:49174 km1132 km
2.709.04.2026 04:213 km900 km
1.907.04.2026 13:43292.5 km809 km
2.605.04.2026 04:185 km915 km
2.804.04.2026 04:316 km928 km
2.831.03.2026 21:2310 km1000 km
1.430.03.2026 07:50100 km808 km
2.528.03.2026 07:435 km1109 km

Regions

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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.