On this day: 30 May

The deadliest recorded disaster on 30 May was the 1935 magnitude 7.5 earthquake near Quetta, which killed 60,000 people.

Historic disasters

Recorded deaths

67,968

Eruptions began

Major events since 1900

Disasters on 30 May in history

Damaging earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions from the NOAA Natural Hazards database, deadliest first.

M7.5 earthquake, Quetta
30 May 1935PakistanTriggered a tsunami60,000 killed$25m damage
M6.6 earthquake, Badakhshan, Takhar
30 May 1998Afghanistan4,700 killed$10m damage
M6.3 earthquake, Kashmir: Srinagar
30 May 1885India3,000 killed
M6.5 earthquake, Moyabamba-Riojo
30 May 1990Peru200 killed8,130 injured$1m damage
M6.7 earthquake, Mendoza
30 May 1929Argentina31 killed65 injured
M5.8 earthquake, Sumbawa Island
30 May 1979Indonesia22 killed$4m damage
M6.7 earthquake, Bucharest, Braila, Brasov
30 May 1990Romania14 killed700 injured$24m damage
M6.6 earthquake, San Salvador
30 May 2019El Salvador1 killed1 injured
M7.8 earthquake, Bonin Islands [chichijima Island]
30 May 2015Japan12 injured
M5.9 earthquake, Yunnan Province: Yingjiang
30 May 2014China45 injured3,390 homes destroyed$2m damage
M4.9 earthquake, Sakhalin, Yuzhno, Sakhalinsk
30 May 2004Russia
M6.2 earthquake, Sanriku, Japan
30 May 1998JapanTriggered a tsunami
Tsunami, Sapporo
30 May 1928Japan
Tsunami, Hawaii
30 May 1924USAWaves up to 5 m
M7.5 earthquake, Solomon Islands
30 May 1913Papua New Guinea
Kilauea eruption (VEI 0)
30 May 1840United States
M7.5 earthquake, Lohughar
30 May 1833India
Earthquake, Lake Erie (Great Lakes)
30 May 1823CanadaTriggered a tsunami
M7.9 earthquake, El Salvador
30 May 1776El Salvador

Big earthquakes and major disasters on 30 May in recent decades.

From the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program eruption record.