Bhutan

Bhutan – Earthquakes | QuakeMap24

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Quakes this month
3
Latest UTC: 2026-01-06 21:47:16
Strongest
M4.2
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Country rank
#54
3 quakes in 2026 · out of 54 countries
Averages
M3.04 · 7 km
 

Overview – Bhutan

The latest recorded earthquake in Bhutan was on 2026-01-06 at 21:47 UTC in བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་ with magnitude M3.8.

The strongest recorded earthquake in Bhutan reached magnitude M4.2 on 2025-09-08.

All-time events
21
Strongest
M4.2
Latest (UTC)
2026-01-06 21:47:16 UTC

Strongest – Bhutan

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M4.2 —
UTC: 2025-09-08 05:45:51 UTC · Depth: 10 km

Map – Bhutan

Markers show the latest 30 earthquakes in Bhutan.

Recent earthquakes – Bhutan

Showing the latest 4 events from the QuakeMap24 database (UTC).

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M3.8 Depth: 10 km
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བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་ · Gongtsephangma_Yobinang

Time (UTC) 2026-01-06 21:47:16 UTC
Coordinates 27.270, 91.700
Source emsc
M3.1 Depth: 10 km
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དར་དཀར་ན་རྫོང་ཁག་

Time (UTC) 2026-01-03 03:20:37 UTC
Coordinates 26.920, 89.920
Source emsc
M3.5 Depth: 5 km
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ཧཱ་རྫོང་ཁག་

Time (UTC) 2026-01-01 16:22:30 UTC
Coordinates 27.140, 89.050
Source emsc
M2.5 Depth: 5 km
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དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་

Time (UTC) 2025-12-21 11:49:44 UTC
Coordinates 27.700, 90.440
Source emsc

Charts – Bhutan

Distributions and trends based on the QuakeMap24 database.

Monthly activity (last 12 months)

2025-02
0
2025-03
0
2025-04
0
2025-05
0
2025-06
2
2025-07
0
2025-08
0
2025-09
5
2025-10
3
2025-11
7
2025-12
1
2026-01
3

Counts are per calendar month (UTC).

Magnitude distribution

0-1
0
1-2
0
2-3
10
3-4
10
4-5
1
5-6
0
6-7
0
7-8
0
8-9
0
9+
0

Based on the last 365 days (UTC).

Depth distribution

0-70
21
70-300
0
300-700
0
700+
0

Depth buckets are derived from the last 365 days (UTC).

Top regions – Bhutan

Regions are derived from the most specific available location fields (e.g. state, then city).

  1. ཧཱ་རྫོང་ཁག་
    Events: 6
  2. བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་
    Events: 5
  3. བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་
    Events: 4
  4. དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་
    Events: 2
  5. དར་དཀར་ན་རྫོང་ཁག་
    Events: 1

FAQ – Bhutan

What is the latest recorded earthquake in Bhutan?
The newest entry in our database for Bhutan is dated 2026-01-06 21:47:16 UTC.
What was the strongest recorded earthquake in Bhutan?
The strongest recorded event in our database for Bhutan reached magnitude M4.2.
How many earthquakes are recorded for Bhutan?
QuakeMap24 currently contains 21 recorded earthquakes for Bhutan (all-time, based on our database).
What are typical average magnitude and depth in Bhutan?
Across all recorded events in Bhutan, the average magnitude is M3.04 and the average depth is 7 km.
Why do some events show city/state/village and others only a place name?
Locality labels depend on the available source data. Some providers deliver precise administrative levels; others provide a broader place description.
How can I explore more than the last 30 events?
Use the country history page for Bhutan to explore earthquake activity with filters.
How often is this page updated?
The content is generated from the QuakeMap24 database and refreshes as new events are ingested. Timestamps are shown in UTC for consistency.

Country history – Bhutan

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