Portal:Geography/Selected anniversaries/February

• 4 February 1966 – Death of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, first full-time editor of National Geographic Magazine and president of the National Geographic Society
• 4 February 1976 – 1976 Guatemala earthquake struck, centered in the Motagua Fault (pictured), about 160 km northeast of Guatemala City, Guatemala
• 7 February 1928 – Creation of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History during conference in Havana, Cuba
• 17 February 2008 – 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence adopted by Assembly of Kosovo