Siverek

Earthquakes near Siverek through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Siverek, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7.5 on February 6, 2023 (Elbistan earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded one earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Siverek in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 5.1 on September 24 (20 km SW of Hilvan, Turkey).

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake on November 27, 1934 (Kurdistan: Diyarbakir (Mouche Diarbekir)), for which NOAA records 100 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 15 here, back to 1046. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 170 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6 on October 16, 2024 (19 km W of Doğanyol, Turkey). NOAA’s record here begins in 1046 with an earthquake (Kurdistan: Diyarbakir (Diarbekir)). It grows thinner going back: 12 of the 15 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

The events

  • October 16, 2024Earthquake · M 6.019 km W of Doğanyol, TurkeyUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • February 6, 2023Earthquake · M 7.5Elbistan earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequenceUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 27, 1934EarthquakeKurdistan: Diyarbakir (Mouche Diarbekir) · 100 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • November 29, 1114Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Antioch, Maras, Harran, Samsat; SyriaNOAA NCEI
  • 1046Earthquake · M 6.3 (est.)Kurdistan: Diyarbakir (Diarbekir)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Siverek 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history

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