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Earthquakes in Balqa

187 earthquakes catalogued in and around Balqa between 1927 and 2025. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
No records in the last 30 days.
187
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2025
record span
2.56
mean magnitude
55
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

045901927: 1 (M5+)19271935194319511956: 1 (M5+)19591967197519831984: 1 (M4–5)1985: 1 (M4–5)1988: 1 (M4–5)19911994: 1 (M3–4)1998: 1 (M3–4)19992000: 3 (M3–4)2001: 2 (M3–4)2002: 3 (M3–4)2002: 1 (M4–5)2004: 7 (M<3)2004: 8 (M3–4)2004: 1 (M4–5)2004: 1 (M5+)2005: 5 (M<3)2005: 3 (M3–4)2005: 2 (M4–5)2006: 7 (M<3)2006: 3 (M3–4)2006: 1 (M4–5)2007: 86 (M<3)2007: 3 (M3–4)2007: 1 (M4–5)20072008: 12 (M<3)2008: 5 (M3–4)2009: 5 (M<3)2009: 1 (M3–4)2010: 6 (M<3)2011: 10 (M<3)2013: 1 (M3–4)20152017: 1 (M3–4)2018: 1 (M<3)20232025: 1 (M3–4)
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+

Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.

Largest earthquakes

Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
6.211.07.1927 13:0415 km9 km
5.418.12.1956 17:5315 km51 km
5.311.02.2004 08:1522.4 km34 km
4.625.01.1985 06:0827.1 km21 km
4.507.07.2004 14:3518.6 km23 km
4.520.11.2007 09:186 km34 km
4.403.10.2005 04:0510 km27 km
4.409.09.2006 04:580.4 km23 km
4.205.11.1984 01:444 km41 km
4.203.10.2005 04:0323 km14 km
4.130.01.1988 03:00—35 km
4.124.02.2002 09:562 km28 km
3.802.12.2007 07:388 km34 km
3.707.09.2005 08:330 km32 km
3.717.06.2002 04:192 km19 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
3.004.01.2025 17:252.1 km29 km
2.528.08.2018 05:4716 km20 km
3.506.01.2017 05:1515 km39 km
3.412.09.2013 01:2020 km26 km
1.811.11.2011 16:141 km30 km
2.101.10.2011 22:0417 km47 km
2.429.09.2011 20:0522.2 km31 km
2.117.09.2011 21:352 km23 km
2.817.09.2011 20:002 km25 km
2.315.09.2011 02:182 km24 km
2.515.09.2011 01:352 km25 km
2.001.05.2011 06:432 km21 km
2.022.01.2011 00:025 km30 km
2.112.01.2011 17:325 km30 km
2.505.12.2010 12:375 km25 km
2.017.10.2010 04:126 km39 km
2.317.04.2010 10:0920 km33 km
2.117.03.2010 05:3210 km21 km
2.706.03.2010 11:302 km35 km
2.625.01.2010 18:5820 km36 km
2.130.12.2009 22:1710 km27 km
2.316.11.2009 12:245.3 km23 km
3.125.09.2009 10:0920 km20 km
1.406.09.2009 08:322 km36 km
2.826.08.2009 12:182 km35 km
2.518.05.2009 02:0225.2 km43 km
3.010.12.2008 11:140 km22 km
2.616.08.2008 10:020 km33 km
2.403.06.2008 00:0210 km36 km
2.606.05.2008 05:0912 km43 km
2.318.04.2008 23:5020 km48 km
2.627.03.2008 23:2219.3 km22 km
2.620.03.2008 10:3914.2 km22 km
3.026.02.2008 14:274.9 km33 km
3.224.02.2008 09:284 km35 km
3.604.02.2008 11:061.5 km34 km
1.913.01.2008 10:420 km38 km
1.913.01.2008 10:260 km39 km
1.906.01.2008 11:400 km38 km
3.104.01.2008 15:505 km26 km
2.304.01.2008 09:255 km25 km
2.003.01.2008 10:350 km27 km
2.001.01.2008 11:320 km17 km
1.929.12.2007 09:380 km26 km
2.318.12.2007 10:580 km27 km
1.713.12.2007 10:540 km41 km
2.110.12.2007 11:189 km29 km
3.802.12.2007 07:388 km34 km
2.030.11.2007 08:297 km34 km
2.429.11.2007 21:2826.1 km24 km
2.027.11.2007 10:120 km27 km
2.227.11.2007 10:090 km27 km
2.126.11.2007 18:141 km42 km
2.023.11.2007 07:086 km34 km
2.222.11.2007 18:1310 km32 km
3.220.11.2007 23:215 km31 km
2.020.11.2007 09:487.8 km33 km
4.520.11.2007 09:186 km34 km
2.920.11.2007 09:1710 km31 km
1.913.11.2007 11:580 km32 km

Method and sources

What this page counts
An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
Location precision
Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
Magnitude scales
The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
Deduplication
The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
Updates
Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
Sources
USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
Reporting an error
If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.