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Earthquakes in Syria

35,181 earthquakes catalogued in and around Syria between 1905 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
1.7
Latest earthquake · depth 7.2 km
03.08.2026 16:35 UTC · from centre 272 km
35,181
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.11
mean magnitude
24,902
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

05438108771905: 2 (M5+)19051908: 2 (M5+)1915: 1 (M5+)19151918: 2 (M5+)1919: 2 (M5+)1921: 1 (M5+)19251927: 1 (M5+)1928: 1 (M5+)1929: 1 (M4–5)1929: 1 (M5+)1930: 1 (M5+)1933: 1 (M5+)1935: 1 (M4–5)19351936: 2 (M5+)1938: 1 (M5+)1941: 1 (M4–5)1941: 1 (M5+)1944: 1 (M4–5)1945: 1 (M5+)19451950: 1 (M4–5)1951: 2 (M4–5)1951: 1 (M5+)1952: 1 (M5+)1953: 1 (M4–5)19551956: 1 (M4–5)1956: 2 (M5+)1960: 1 (M4–5)1961: 1 (M4–5)1961: 1 (M5+)1962: 1 (M4–5)1964: 2 (M4–5)1965: 2 (M4–5)19651966: 1 (M4–5)1967: 1 (M4–5)1967: 1 (M5+)1968: 3 (M4–5)1969: 2 (M4–5)1970: 2 (M4–5)1971: 4 (M4–5)1971: 3 (M5+)1974: 4 (M4–5)19751976: 1 (M3–4)1976: 1 (M4–5)1977: 1 (M4–5)1978: 2 (M4–5)1979: 1 (M4–5)1979: 1 (M5+)1980: 2 (M4–5)1981: 1 (M3–4)1981: 4 (M4–5)1982: 1 (M3–4)1982: 5 (M4–5)1983: 3 (M4–5)1984: 1 (M3–4)1984: 1 (M4–5)1985: 2 (M4–5)19851986: 2 (M4–5)1986: 1 (M5+)1987: 1 (M3–4)1987: 4 (M4–5)1988: 5 (M3–4)1988: 2 (M4–5)1989: 5 (M3–4)1989: 1 (M4–5)1989: 1 (M5+)1990: 2 (M3–4)1990: 1 (M4–5)1991: 5 (M3–4)1991: 10 (M4–5)1991: 1 (M5+)1992: 11 (M3–4)1992: 4 (M4–5)1993: 3 (M3–4)1993: 3 (M4–5)1993: 1 (M5+)1994: 5 (M<3)1994: 20 (M3–4)1994: 5 (M4–5)1994: 1 (M5+)1995: 1 (M<3)1995: 34 (M3–4)1995: 9 (M4–5)19951996: 31 (M3–4)1996: 14 (M4–5)1996: 2 (M5+)1997: 47 (M3–4)1997: 9 (M4–5)1997: 3 (M5+)1998: 7 (M<3)1998: 69 (M3–4)1998: 7 (M4–5)1998: 3 (M5+)1999: 1 (M<3)1999: 23 (M3–4)1999: 8 (M4–5)2000: 4 (M<3)2000: 31 (M3–4)2000: 4 (M4–5)2001: 4 (M<3)2001: 29 (M3–4)2001: 4 (M4–5)2001: 2 (M5+)2002: 6 (M<3)2002: 59 (M3–4)2002: 7 (M4–5)2003: 17 (M<3)2003: 70 (M3–4)2003: 5 (M4–5)2004: 75 (M<3)2004: 106 (M3–4)2004: 6 (M4–5)2005: 143 (M<3)2005: 139 (M3–4)2005: 5 (M4–5)20052006: 154 (M<3)2006: 115 (M3–4)2006: 2 (M4–5)2007: 482 (M<3)2007: 155 (M3–4)2007: 7 (M4–5)2008: 601 (M<3)2008: 269 (M3–4)2008: 6 (M4–5)2008: 1 (M5+)2009: 1,537 (M<3)2009: 290 (M3–4)2009: 4 (M4–5)2010: 2,082 (M<3)2010: 312 (M3–4)2010: 5 (M4–5)2011: 1,911 (M<3)2011: 204 (M3–4)2011: 5 (M4–5)2012: 958 (M<3)2012: 276 (M3–4)2012: 15 (M4–5)2012: 3 (M5+)2013: 1,451 (M<3)2013: 196 (M3–4)2013: 4 (M4–5)2014: 1,089 (M<3)2014: 30 (M3–4)2014: 11 (M4–5)2015: 897 (M<3)2015: 30 (M3–4)2015: 8 (M4–5)20152016: 799 (M<3)2016: 43 (M3–4)2016: 7 (M4–5)2017: 954 (M<3)2017: 47 (M3–4)2017: 2 (M4–5)2017: 1 (M5+)2018: 989 (M<3)2018: 38 (M3–4)2018: 7 (M4–5)2018: 1 (M5+)2019: 515 (M<3)2019: 33 (M3–4)2019: 2 (M4–5)2020: 603 (M<3)2020: 41 (M3–4)2020: 14 (M4–5)2020: 1 (M5+)2021: 640 (M<3)2021: 39 (M3–4)2021: 5 (M4–5)2022: 984 (M<3)2022: 54 (M3–4)2022: 6 (M4–5)2022: 1 (M5+)2023: 9,827 (M<3)2023: 893 (M3–4)2023: 138 (M4–5)2023: 19 (M5+)2024: 1,955 (M<3)2024: 96 (M3–4)2024: 7 (M4–5)2024: 2 (M5+)2025: 1,349 (M<3)2025: 76 (M3–4)2025: 4 (M4–5)20252026: 685 (M<3)2026: 26 (M3–4)2026: 1 (M4–5)
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
7.806.02.2023 01:179 km324 km
7.706.02.2023 10:248.3 km396 km
6.804.12.1905 07:0510 km374 km
6.806.02.2023 01:2813.8 km340 km
6.429.09.1918 12:0715 km317 km
6.320.02.2023 17:0413.5 km323 km
6.227.06.1998 13:5537.9 km419 km
6.211.07.1927 13:0415 km449 km
6.120.03.1945 07:5815 km399 km
6.005.05.1986 03:354.9 km378 km
6.017.02.1908 03:005 km415 km
5.927.06.1998 13:5623 km392 km
5.825.04.1918 02:2230 km253 km
5.820.02.2023 17:076.6 km321 km
5.727.05.1919 10:3415 km413 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
1.703.08.2026 16:357.2 km272 km
1.603.08.2026 06:297.6 km311 km
2.102.08.2026 23:127 km418 km
1.102.08.2026 21:437 km330 km
1.802.08.2026 13:076.9 km207 km
1.602.08.2026 12:117 km349 km
0.902.08.2026 11:386.9 km349 km
1.302.08.2026 05:597 km339 km
2.002.08.2026 02:217 km341 km
1.701.08.2026 14:049.5 km267 km
2.101.08.2026 07:217 km372 km
2.101.08.2026 02:497 km331 km
2.931.07.2026 16:2312.2 km335 km
1.631.07.2026 12:597 km382 km
2.231.07.2026 11:547 km325 km
1.331.07.2026 04:287 km327 km
1.531.07.2026 01:1611.2 km336 km
2.030.07.2026 21:307 km380 km
2.430.07.2026 18:477 km342 km
1.730.07.2026 11:027 km396 km
2.429.07.2026 14:577 km339 km
1.829.07.2026 09:517.9 km187 km
1.528.07.2026 12:036.6 km203 km
0.728.07.2026 01:297 km356 km
1.228.07.2026 01:1710.6 km320 km
1.827.07.2026 10:356.9 km208 km
1.427.07.2026 09:024.5 km317 km
2.127.07.2026 08:535.3 km276 km
2.427.07.2026 06:0214.4 km321 km
2.026.07.2026 08:567.8 km217 km
2.226.07.2026 06:3812.7 km355 km
1.326.07.2026 02:127.1 km356 km
2.125.07.2026 23:529.2 km335 km
1.325.07.2026 19:036.8 km213 km
2.125.07.2026 15:1422.7 km318 km
1.925.07.2026 10:317 km315 km
2.625.07.2026 10:277 km316 km
1.224.07.2026 04:2018.9 km342 km
2.223.07.2026 11:2812.1 km354 km
2.422.07.2026 18:564.2 km184 km
1.022.07.2026 10:317 km348 km
1.822.07.2026 09:037 km406 km
1.222.07.2026 00:537 km324 km
1.821.07.2026 23:069.2 km379 km
1.221.07.2026 17:597 km336 km
2.021.07.2026 07:447.5 km321 km
1.621.07.2026 00:347 km357 km
1.020.07.2026 23:2010 km341 km
1.720.07.2026 11:357.9 km332 km
2.820.07.2026 03:277 km303 km
1.119.07.2026 22:505.8 km334 km
1.719.07.2026 02:389.9 km204 km
3.118.07.2026 20:5012.1 km365 km
1.818.07.2026 20:067 km194 km
3.018.07.2026 17:298 km354 km
1.918.07.2026 07:5614.1 km347 km
1.817.07.2026 22:327 km320 km
1.917.07.2026 18:077 km314 km
3.417.07.2026 17:547.7 km315 km
0.917.07.2026 01:147 km343 km

Regions

Aleppo5,338Idlib4,423Homs2,163Rif Dimashq1,995Al-Hasakah1,671Latakia1,113Hama900Al-Raqqah885Deir ez-Zor509Daraa380Western al-Samadania293Tartus276Quneitra154

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.