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Earthquakes in Zarqa

159 earthquakes catalogued in and around Zarqa between 1927 and 2011. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
No records in the last 30 days.
159
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2011
record span
2.36
mean magnitude
116
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

042841927: 1 (M5+)192719341941194819551956: 1 (M5+)19621969197619831989: 1 (M4–5)199019971998: 1 (M<3)1998: 14 (M3–4)1999: 2 (M<3)1999: 3 (M3–4)2001: 1 (M<3)2001: 3 (M3–4)2002: 2 (M<3)2002: 2 (M3–4)2004: 5 (M<3)2004: 1 (M3–4)2004: 1 (M5+)20042005: 3 (M<3)2005: 1 (M3–4)2005: 1 (M4–5)2007: 83 (M<3)2007: 1 (M4–5)2008: 13 (M<3)2008: 3 (M3–4)2009: 4 (M<3)2010: 10 (M<3)2011: 2 (M<3)2011
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 km113 km
5.418.12.1956 17:5315 km132 km
5.311.02.2004 08:1522.4 km129 km
4.520.11.2007 09:186 km118 km
4.431.03.1989 00:4431.6 km66 km
4.203.10.2005 04:0323 km115 km
3.604.02.2008 11:061.5 km71 km
3.524.06.2002 20:1910 km96 km
3.303.09.1999 11:1635 km22 km
3.323.11.2005 10:5210 km72 km
3.211.12.2001 12:388.9 km98 km
3.224.02.2008 09:284 km72 km
3.227.09.1998 12:2135 km59 km
3.205.10.1998 12:1828 km31 km
3.201.12.1999 13:1720 km67 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
1.006.04.2011 10:0215 km54 km
1.201.02.2011 13:4729 km55 km
1.425.12.2010 09:2411 km87 km
1.206.12.2010 10:3915 km75 km
1.001.12.2010 15:228 km53 km
1.123.11.2010 14:5410 km50 km
1.021.11.2010 13:523 km54 km
1.410.11.2010 14:556 km52 km
1.002.11.2010 15:527 km52 km
2.706.03.2010 11:302 km71 km
1.309.02.2010 13:4815 km56 km
1.131.01.2010 10:2030.2 km25 km
2.816.09.2009 11:011.3 km70 km
1.406.09.2009 08:322 km70 km
1.126.07.2009 15:530 km72 km
1.921.04.2009 10:162 km70 km
2.228.08.2008 10:410 km68 km
2.616.08.2008 10:020 km73 km
2.620.03.2008 10:3914.2 km84 km
3.026.02.2008 14:274.9 km73 km
3.224.02.2008 09:284 km72 km
3.604.02.2008 11:061.5 km71 km
1.514.01.2008 09:200 km62 km
1.913.01.2008 10:420 km101 km
1.913.01.2008 10:260 km88 km
2.012.01.2008 10:420 km71 km
2.507.01.2008 10:050 km71 km
1.906.01.2008 11:400 km101 km
2.705.01.2008 05:2810 km63 km
1.903.01.2008 10:530 km74 km
2.003.01.2008 10:350 km80 km
2.001.01.2008 11:320 km97 km
2.126.12.2007 09:480 km71 km
2.224.12.2007 10:570 km71 km
2.318.12.2007 10:580 km80 km
1.713.12.2007 10:540 km92 km
2.112.12.2007 12:320 km71 km
1.909.12.2007 09:570 km66 km
2.027.11.2007 10:120 km80 km
2.227.11.2007 10:090 km80 km
4.520.11.2007 09:186 km118 km
1.914.11.2007 13:300 km78 km
1.913.11.2007 11:580 km83 km
2.512.11.2007 11:070 km71 km
2.101.11.2007 13:300 km97 km
1.501.11.2007 12:140 km80 km
1.925.10.2007 11:200 km99 km
2.224.10.2007 11:200 km71 km
1.823.10.2007 14:070 km80 km
2.323.10.2007 10:330 km88 km
2.120.10.2007 09:590 km83 km
2.220.10.2007 09:250 km80 km
2.116.10.2007 10:110 km101 km
2.302.10.2007 11:070 km80 km
2.129.09.2007 11:190 km62 km
2.526.09.2007 11:110 km80 km
1.011.09.2007 11:200 km80 km
1.911.09.2007 11:010 km80 km
2.506.09.2007 11:590 km71 km
1.905.09.2007 10:270 km92 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.