This list documents major earthquakes affecting Portugal.
Date
Location
Mag.
MMI
Notes
Casualties
Ref
Dead
Injured
210 BCE
Cape St. Vincent
Possible tsunami.
[1][2]
60 BCE
coasts of Portugal and Galicia
8.5
IX
Tsunami
[3]
382
Cape St. Vincent
7.5
Tsunami
[4]
1344
Lisbon
[5]
1358-08-24
Lisbon
X
Severe damage in Seville and Lisbon.
[6]
1531-01-26
Lisbon
7.7
At least 1,500 houses destroyed. Violent earthquake felt in Africa. A large tsunami was reported.
30,000
[7][8]
1551-01-28
Lisbon
About 200 houses destroyed.
2,000
[9]
1587-11
Loulé
X
170
[10]
1597-07-28
Monte Santo
IX
[11]
1722-12-27
Tavira, Algarve
7.8
X
At least 27 homes collapsed in Tavira. Albufeira, Loule, Lagoa, and Faro also reported damage.
[12][13]
1755-11-01
Atlantic Ocean
8.7–9.0 Mw
XI
Lisbon almost completely destroyed by the earthquake and subsequent conflagrations. A large tsunami with a maximum height of 18.3 meters. Deaths were also reported in Morocco due to the tsunami. In the Lesser Antillies, surges were also observed.
50,000–100,000
[14][15]
1756-03-29
Lisbon
[16]
1761-03-31
Atlantic Ocean
8.5 Mw
IX
Lasted five minutes.
[17]
1816-02-02
North Atlantic
8.3–8.9 Mw
VII
Damage and deaths in Ovar. One death in Lisbon. Felt in Spain, the Netherlands and Azores Islands.
13+
[18]
1858-11-11
Setubal
7.1 Mw
X
605 homes destroyed.
6
[19][20][21]
1909-04-23
Santarem District
6.0 Mw
X
Salvaterra de Magos and Benavente partially destroyed.
60
[22][23]
1969-02-28
Gulf of Cádiz
7.8 Mw
VII
Deaths in Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. Tsunami observed.
25
80
[24][25]
Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described also apply to lists. In summary, only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded.
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^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: CABO SAN VICENTE". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^M. A. Baptista and J. M. Miranda (2009). "Revision of the Portuguese catalog of tsunamis" (PDF). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 9 (1): 25–49. Bibcode:2009NHESS...9...25B. doi:10.5194/nhess-9-25-2009. hdl:10400.21/1265.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: CABO SAN VICENTE: SW". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "TAGUS RIVER, LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: LOULE". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: MONTE SANTO, LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^Chester, David K; Chester, Olivia K (December 2010). "The impact of eighteenth century earthquakes on the Algarve region, southern Portugal: The impact of eighteenth century earthquakes on the Algarve region". Geographical Journal. 176 (4): 350–370. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00367.x.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "Tsunami Event Information LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^José R. Ribeiro; Ana P. S. Correia; Ana I. C. Ribeiro (2020). "2 February 1816, an Overlooked North Atlantic M 8 Earthquake". Seismological Research Letters. 91 (5): 2912–2921. Bibcode:2020SeiRL..91.2912R. doi:10.1785/0220200201. S2CID 225211860.
^Angela Santos, Nuno Fonseca, Margarida Queirós, José Luís Zêzere and José Luís Bucho (8 November 2017). "Implementation of Tsunami Evacuation Maps at Setubal Municipality, Portugal". Geosciences. 7 (4): 116. Bibcode:2017Geosc...7..116S. doi:10.3390/geosciences7040116. hdl:10451/36215.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Susana P. Vilanova and Joao F. B. D. Fonseca (October 2007). "Probabilistic Seismic-Hazard Assessment for Portugal". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 97 (5): 1702–1717. Bibcode:2007BuSSA..97.1702V. doi:10.1785/0120050198.
^NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database. "PORTUGAL: SETUBAL". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
^Teves-Costa, P., Batlló, J. (2011). "The 23 April 1909 Benavente earthquake (Portugal): macroseismic field revision". Journal of Seismology. 15 (1): 59–70. Bibcode:2011JSeis..15...59T. doi:10.1007/s10950-010-9207-6. S2CID 129731577.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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