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Earthquakes in United Arab Emirates

181 earthquakes catalogued in and around United Arab Emirates between 1905 and 2025. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
No records in the last 30 days.
181
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1905–2025
record span
3.02
mean magnitude
121
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

022441905: 1 (M5+)190519151925: 1 (M5+)19251927: 1 (M5+)1931: 3 (M5+)1935: 1 (M5+)19351945: 2 (M5+)194519551960: 1 (M5+)1963: 1 (M5+)19651967: 4 (M5+)1969: 1 (M5+)1975: 1 (M4–5)19751979: 1 (M4–5)1981: 1 (M4–5)1984: 3 (M4–5)19851986: 1 (M5+)19951997: 1 (M4–5)2002: 3 (M4–5)20052007: 16 (M<3)2007: 3 (M3–4)2007: 1 (M4–5)2008: 11 (M<3)2008: 4 (M3–4)2008: 1 (M4–5)2008: 1 (M5+)2009: 13 (M<3)2009: 3 (M3–4)2010: 12 (M<3)2010: 2 (M3–4)2011: 41 (M<3)2011: 3 (M3–4)2012: 1 (M3–4)2012: 1 (M4–5)2014: 1 (M3–4)2014: 2 (M4–5)2014: 2 (M5+)2015: 10 (M<3)2015: 1 (M4–5)20152016: 11 (M<3)2017: 1 (M3–4)2019: 3 (M3–4)2019: 2 (M4–5)2019: 1 (M5+)2020: 1 (M3–4)2022: 1 (M3–4)2022: 2 (M4–5)2022: 2 (M5+)2025: 1 (M3–4)2025
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
6.209.01.1905 06:1415 km302 km
6.111.01.1945 02:0315 km293 km
6.110.09.2008 11:0017.5 km337 km
6.101.07.2022 23:2513.5 km305 km
6.001.07.2022 21:3213 km303 km
5.915.01.1945 17:2115 km278 km
5.824.09.1925 04:3815 km267 km
5.605.05.1931 06:4235 km240 km
5.505.05.1931 14:1015 km261 km
5.507.05.1931 00:4515 km233 km
5.402.07.1935 15:2415 km232 km
5.416.11.1927 01:2615 km229 km
5.330.07.2014 01:3213.7 km235 km
5.331.10.1963 09:56—280 km
5.327.05.2014 05:4411.7 km310 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
3.904.11.2025 12:4017.2 km270 km
3.302.07.2022 14:4410 km196 km
6.101.07.2022 23:2513.5 km305 km
4.201.07.2022 21:4110 km300 km
6.001.07.2022 21:3213 km303 km
4.116.06.2022 04:4410 km227 km
3.719.05.2020 07:0110 km229 km
3.912.12.2019 14:2510 km216 km
4.104.11.2019 00:4512.4 km205 km
4.204.11.2019 00:1822 km208 km
3.731.10.2019 15:4314.5 km205 km
5.031.10.2019 15:4310 km216 km
3.811.01.2019 08:5110 km243 km
3.501.03.2017 23:463 km223 km
2.319.09.2016 15:4820 km206 km
2.622.08.2016 03:237 km281 km
2.330.07.2016 00:0010 km175 km
2.629.07.2016 01:3110 km239 km
2.224.06.2016 01:1419 km211 km
2.520.06.2016 14:478 km208 km
2.208.05.2016 20:083 km244 km
2.408.05.2016 19:249 km258 km
2.320.04.2016 22:485 km271 km
2.721.03.2016 00:5815 km204 km
2.816.02.2016 06:584 km261 km
2.424.12.2015 00:465 km276 km
2.627.11.2015 04:5122 km98 km
2.420.11.2015 08:1235 km291 km
2.423.10.2015 03:128 km248 km
2.922.10.2015 12:206 km249 km
2.403.07.2015 23:5754 km244 km
2.630.05.2015 06:5210 km81 km
2.501.05.2015 08:3510 km191 km
2.521.04.2015 19:1871 km128 km
2.621.04.2015 04:425 km84 km
4.323.03.2015 15:420 km205 km
3.115.09.2014 07:0213 km202 km
4.216.08.2014 12:5210 km220 km
4.231.07.2014 20:0710 km210 km
5.330.07.2014 01:3213.7 km235 km
5.327.05.2014 05:4411.7 km310 km
4.521.10.2012 16:1325.1 km235 km
3.121.10.2012 16:1312.8 km250 km
1.725.12.2011 19:085 km178 km
1.612.12.2011 05:386.3 km254 km
1.809.12.2011 06:012 km256 km
1.728.11.2011 06:0320 km239 km
1.724.11.2011 04:467 km255 km
1.722.11.2011 05:512 km181 km
1.720.11.2011 05:482 km265 km
1.418.11.2011 11:379.9 km235 km
1.514.11.2011 05:388 km255 km
1.201.11.2011 06:4610 km221 km
2.726.10.2011 21:242 km185 km
1.824.10.2011 22:155 km303 km
2.022.10.2011 19:112 km180 km
2.816.10.2011 10:5210 km186 km
1.510.10.2011 05:475.8 km234 km
1.604.10.2011 04:438 km254 km
3.116.09.2011 22:0410 km254 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.