Kahramanmaraş

Earthquakes near Kahramanmaraş through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Kahramanmaraş, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7.8 on February 6, 2023 (Pazarcik earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded 3 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Kahramanmaraş in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 5 on October 4 (21 km ESE of Feke, Turkey).

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: an estimated magnitude 7.5 on December 13, 115 (Antakya (Antioch)), for which NOAA records 260,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 12 here, back to AD 115. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 573,982 in all. NOAA’s record here begins on December 13, 115 with an earthquake (Antakya (Antioch)). It grows thinner going back: 5 of the 12 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Kahramanmaraş. It reached 0.3 m, on February 6, 2023.

The events

  • February 6, 2023Earthquake · M 7.8Pazarcik earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence · 56,697 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 6, 2023Earthquake · M 7.5Elbistan earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequenceUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 6, 2023Tsunami · 0.3 m highGulf Of IskenderunNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • December 13, 115Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Antakya (Antioch) · 260,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Kahramanmaraş when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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