List of earthquakes in Saudi Arabia

Earthquakes in Saudi Arabia are infrequent and usually occur in the western portion of the country near the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aqaba.

Date	Region	M		MMI	Fatalities	Injuries	Comments
551-07-09	Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia			X			Severe damage / tsunami	NGDC
1068-03-18	Ramla, Jerusalem, Tabuk			IX	Many		Extreme damage	NGDC
1072	Yemen, Saudi Arabia			VIII	50		Moderate damage	NGDC
1995-11-22	Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan	7.2		VIII	12	Some	Moderate damage / tsunami	NGDC
2004-06-09	Tabuk Region	4.6	M_L				Minor damage	^[1]
2009-05-17	Umm Lajj	4.6	M_b				Homes damaged or destroyed	^[2]
2009-05-19	Al Madinah	5.7	M_w			7	Landslides	^[3]

References

Sources

NGDC, Significant Earthquake Database, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K

List of earthquakes in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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