Within 300 km
Earthquakes near Katumba
Katumba, Mbeya, Tanzania · population 108,558. Every earthquake within 300 km since 1900.
Past 30 days0M2.5+ within 300 km
Past year1M2.5+
Since 190078M4.5+, 6 of them M6+
How often M6+21 yraverage gap between M6+ quakes
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Magnitude 4.5+ per year since 1900
Within 300 km of Katumba. Small quakes were rarely recorded worldwide before the 1970s, so early years show fewer.
The strongest on record
- 7.0 17 km SSW of Sumbawanga, Tanzania Jul 8, 1919
- 6.5 12 km WNW of Chama, Zambia May 1, 1919
- 6.4 38 km S of Mbamba Bay, Tanzania Oct 9, 1942
- 6.3 30 km WNW of Chama, Zambia Dec 18, 1940
- 6.0 13 km W of Sumbawanga, Tanzania Oct 1, 1949
- 6.0 23 km SSW of Karonga, Malawi Dec 19, 2009
- 5.9 6 km WSW of Karonga, Malawi Dec 8, 2009
- 5.9 55 km ENE of Chala, Tanzania Aug 18, 1994
- 5.8 22 km SSW of Karonga, Malawi Dec 6, 2009
- 5.7 36 km WNW of Chama, Zambia Sep 19, 1976
The latest nearby
- 4.4 23 km ESE of Nkhata Bay, Malawi Jan 23, 2026
- 4.7 16 km WNW of Mbeya, Tanzania May 16, 2025
- 5.0 1 km NNE of Mbamba Bay, Tanzania Nov 24, 2024
- 4.4 22 km N of Mlowo, Tanzania May 31, 2024
- 4.5 12 km NNE of Livingstonia, Malawi May 4, 2024
- 4.1 20 km S of Mbamba Bay, Tanzania Jul 22, 2022
- 4.4 32 km WSW of Mlangali, Tanzania Jan 14, 2022
- 4.4 33 km E of Nkhata Bay, Malawi Dec 16, 2021
- 4.7 12 km ENE of Laela, Tanzania Oct 15, 2021
- 4.4 6 km SSE of Mbala, Zambia Jan 21, 2021
- 4.3 45 km NNE of Laela, Tanzania Nov 8, 2020
- 4.4 13 km SSW of Liuli, Tanzania Aug 24, 2020
- 5.0 11 km SSW of Liuli, Tanzania Aug 24, 2020
- 4.4 33 km SE of Mungwi, Zambia Apr 15, 2020
- 4.2 34 km WNW of Liuli, Tanzania Dec 18, 2019