List of earthquakes in Thailand

This is a list of earthquakes in Thailand:

Earthquakes

Date (UTC)	Location	Mag.	MMI	Deaths	Injuries	Comments
460-07-22	-	-	XII	"Many"	-	A village was submerged and a lake was created.[1]
564-06-07	-	-	VIII	-	-	Four pagodas collapsed.[1]
1568-07-09	Chiang Mai	-	VII	-	-	An 86-meter-high pagoda was damaged.[1]
1575-07-06	Chiang Saen	-	VII	-	-	Temples and pagodas in four districts were destroyed.[1]
1839-03-23	Myanmar	8.0+	V	-	-	Felt in Bangkok.[1] MMI XI in Myanmar. More than 400 fatalities.
1922-05-02	Shan (Myanmar)	6.7	-	-	-	Ms
1935-05-13	Sainyabuli (Laos)	6.3	-	-	-	Ms
1975-02-17	Tak (Myanmar border)	6.0	V–VI	-	"Several"	Mw .[2] Some damage and some people injured in Bangkok.[3]
1978-05-25	Chiang Mai	4.8	V	-	-	mb .[4] Some damage in Phrao.
1983-04-22	Kanchanaburi	5.8	V–VII	-	-	Mw . Some damage in Bangkok, Kanchanaburi, and Nakhon Phanom. Reservoir-induced earthquake.[3]
1988-11-06	Yunnan (Myanmar–China border)	7.6 & 7.2	V–VI	-	-	Ms . Some damage in Chiang Rai. Felt by people in tall buildings in Bangkok.[3] More than 700 killed in China. Two mainshocks separated by 13 minutes; MMI IX and X respectively.
1989-09-30	Shan (Myanmar–Thailand border)	5.8	VI	-	-	Mw . Some damage in Chiang Mai.[3]
2006-12-12	Chiang Mai	4.6	IV	-	-	mb .[5] Five buildings damaged.
2007-05-16	Bokeo (Laos)	6.3	VIII	-	-	Mw .[6] Some buildings in Chiang Rai and Chiang Saen sustained minor damage.
2011-03-24	Shan (Myanmar)	6.8	VI	1	-	Mw .[7] One person in Mae Sai killed. MMI IX in Myanmar. At least 74 fatalities in total.
2014-05-05	Chiang Rai	6.1	VIII	1	23	Mw .[8] An elderly person died of a heart attack and 23 people were injured. Damage to buildings and roads.
2019-02-20	Lampang	4.6	VI	-	-	Mw .[9] Damage to at least 15 buildings, including a pagoda.
2019-11-20	Sainyabuli (Laos)	6.2	VII	-	-	Mw .[10] Damage to some buildings and two people injured in Laos. Several buildings damaged in Bo Kluea and Chaloem Phra Kiat.
2025-03-28	Sagaing, (Myanmar)	7.7	X	96	36	Strongest earthquake felt in Thailand since 2016;[11][12] caused the collapse of a 33-story building under construction in Bangkok, trapping scores of workers.[13]
Note: Only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded.

Tsunamis affecting Thailand

• 1941 Andaman Islands earthquake – magnitude 7.7 earthquake, severe damage and unknown fatalities.
• 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake – magnitude 9.1 earthquake, extensive damage, more than 5,400 people killed and many missing.^[14]
• 2009 Andaman Islands earthquake – magnitude 7.5 earthquake, tsunami warning issued, no injuries or fatalities anywhere.