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Earthquakes in Kars

5,583 earthquakes catalogued in and around Kars between 1903 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
0.9
Latest earthquake · depth 7 km
01.08.2026 21:02 UTC · from centre 54 km
5,583
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1903–2026
record span
2.20
mean magnitude
3,239
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

03426841903: 2 (M5+)19031906: 1 (M4–5)1906: 2 (M5+)1912: 2 (M5+)19131914: 1 (M4–5)1915: 1 (M4–5)1916: 2 (M5+)1919: 1 (M5+)19231924: 2 (M4–5)1924: 7 (M5+)1925: 4 (M5+)1926: 3 (M5+)1928: 1 (M5+)1929: 2 (M4–5)1932: 1 (M5+)1933: 1 (M5+)19331935: 3 (M5+)1936: 2 (M5+)1937: 1 (M5+)1938: 2 (M5+)1939: 1 (M4–5)1940: 4 (M5+)1941: 1 (M5+)19431946: 1 (M5+)1949: 1 (M4–5)1951: 1 (M4–5)1952: 2 (M4–5)1952: 2 (M5+)19531958: 2 (M4–5)1958: 1 (M5+)1959: 1 (M4–5)1959: 1 (M5+)1961: 1 (M4–5)1961: 1 (M5+)1962: 1 (M5+)1963: 3 (M4–5)19631966: 1 (M5+)1967: 2 (M4–5)1967: 1 (M5+)1968: 4 (M4–5)1969: 1 (M4–5)1970: 2 (M4–5)1971: 1 (M4–5)1972: 3 (M4–5)19731975: 3 (M4–5)1976: 1 (M3–4)1976: 6 (M4–5)1976: 2 (M5+)1978: 4 (M4–5)1978: 1 (M5+)1980: 3 (M4–5)1982: 3 (M4–5)1983: 14 (M4–5)1983: 5 (M5+)19831984: 11 (M4–5)1984: 2 (M5+)1985: 2 (M4–5)1985: 1 (M5+)1986: 2 (M4–5)1986: 1 (M5+)1987: 1 (M4–5)1988: 1 (M3–4)1988: 6 (M4–5)1988: 2 (M5+)1989: 1 (M3–4)1989: 3 (M4–5)1990: 1 (M5+)1991: 2 (M3–4)1991: 5 (M4–5)1991: 2 (M5+)1992: 1 (M4–5)1992: 1 (M5+)1993: 1 (M4–5)19931994: 1 (M4–5)1995: 1 (M3–4)1995: 2 (M4–5)1996: 2 (M3–4)1996: 3 (M4–5)1997: 1 (M3–4)1997: 5 (M4–5)1997: 1 (M5+)1998: 4 (M3–4)1998: 10 (M4–5)1999: 13 (M3–4)1999: 19 (M4–5)1999: 2 (M5+)2000: 10 (M3–4)2000: 17 (M4–5)2001: 6 (M3–4)2001: 7 (M4–5)2001: 1 (M5+)2002: 10 (M3–4)2002: 5 (M4–5)2003: 8 (M3–4)2003: 2 (M4–5)20032004: 1 (M<3)2004: 18 (M3–4)2004: 8 (M4–5)2004: 1 (M5+)2005: 9 (M<3)2005: 22 (M3–4)2006: 13 (M<3)2006: 18 (M3–4)2006: 1 (M4–5)2007: 64 (M<3)2007: 50 (M3–4)2007: 1 (M4–5)2007: 1 (M5+)2008: 129 (M<3)2008: 46 (M3–4)2009: 137 (M<3)2009: 76 (M3–4)2009: 1 (M4–5)2010: 284 (M<3)2010: 44 (M3–4)2011: 219 (M<3)2011: 25 (M3–4)2011: 1 (M4–5)2011: 1 (M5+)2012: 248 (M<3)2012: 30 (M3–4)2013: 251 (M<3)2013: 20 (M3–4)20132014: 246 (M<3)2014: 4 (M3–4)2014: 1 (M4–5)2015: 235 (M<3)2015: 18 (M3–4)2015: 1 (M4–5)2016: 202 (M<3)2016: 5 (M3–4)2017: 187 (M<3)2017: 8 (M3–4)2017: 3 (M4–5)2018: 210 (M<3)2018: 6 (M3–4)2018: 1 (M4–5)2019: 146 (M<3)2019: 8 (M3–4)2019: 3 (M4–5)2020: 188 (M<3)2020: 13 (M3–4)2021: 454 (M<3)2021: 19 (M3–4)2021: 3 (M4–5)2021: 1 (M5+)2022: 643 (M<3)2022: 33 (M3–4)2022: 6 (M4–5)2022: 2 (M5+)2023: 273 (M<3)2023: 4 (M3–4)2023: 3 (M4–5)20232024: 271 (M<3)2024: 10 (M3–4)2024: 1 (M4–5)2025: 205 (M<3)2025: 9 (M3–4)2025: 2 (M4–5)2026: 138 (M<3)2026: 4 (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
7.123.10.2011 10:417.6 km203 km
7.024.11.1976 12:2211.9 km182 km
6.813.09.1924 14:3415 km112 km
6.819.08.1966 12:2219.1 km180 km
6.707.12.1988 07:414.6 km116 km
6.630.10.1983 04:1211.1 km68 km
6.507.05.1940 22:2350 km165 km
6.328.04.1903 23:4630 km162 km
6.228.09.1906 05:5030 km20 km
6.001.05.1935 10:2435 km113 km
6.028.12.1906 00:0030 km80 km
6.031.05.1946 03:1235 km135 km
6.010.09.1941 21:5335 km113 km
5.907.12.1988 07:4510.5 km117 km
5.809.01.1925 17:3815 km113 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
0.901.08.2026 21:027 km54 km
1.701.08.2026 04:317.7 km25 km
0.931.07.2026 22:355.3 km66 km
1.029.07.2026 22:247 km52 km
1.626.07.2026 11:157.1 km86 km
1.925.07.2026 10:3614.1 km67 km
2.722.07.2026 13:169.4 km77 km
1.022.07.2026 00:286.8 km72 km
1.921.07.2026 09:077 km69 km
2.221.07.2026 06:027 km69 km
2.021.07.2026 05:047 km70 km
2.821.07.2026 04:1313.7 km69 km
2.219.07.2026 10:537 km97 km
1.417.07.2026 17:417 km35 km
1.717.07.2026 17:407 km35 km
1.417.07.2026 17:197 km36 km
2.017.07.2026 12:067 km35 km
2.417.07.2026 09:2511.8 km34 km
2.417.07.2026 09:247 km32 km
2.415.07.2026 20:527.1 km57 km
1.615.07.2026 20:3413.3 km29 km
3.414.07.2026 21:187.1 km56 km
1.311.07.2026 00:2511.5 km87 km
1.905.07.2026 14:5116.9 km54 km
1.905.07.2026 02:2514.4 km103 km
1.305.07.2026 02:087.2 km75 km
2.203.07.2026 04:518 km94 km
1.430.06.2026 17:437 km86 km
2.228.06.2026 19:5710.6 km9 km
2.224.06.2026 23:096.8 km34 km
1.821.06.2026 12:587 km48 km
1.721.06.2026 05:127.8 km57 km
1.519.06.2026 15:538.9 km69 km
1.517.06.2026 11:377 km78 km
1.817.06.2026 09:2811.5 km56 km
1.116.06.2026 12:557 km93 km
1.213.06.2026 01:527 km54 km
1.410.06.2026 01:387 km34 km
1.309.06.2026 01:2710.5 km29 km
1.407.06.2026 22:257 km71 km
1.707.06.2026 15:247 km50 km
1.607.06.2026 06:227 km48 km
1.407.06.2026 01:429.3 km74 km
1.106.06.2026 09:167 km66 km
1.206.06.2026 03:267.1 km56 km
1.905.06.2026 19:307 km71 km
2.128.05.2026 09:487 km70 km
1.328.05.2026 01:087 km85 km
1.325.05.2026 05:246.8 km52 km
2.024.05.2026 15:497 km90 km
2.121.05.2026 23:597.1 km105 km
2.016.05.2026 08:047 km49 km
2.115.05.2026 10:3211.7 km60 km
1.813.05.2026 06:077 km64 km
1.311.05.2026 23:2013.8 km84 km
1.910.05.2026 11:497 km106 km
2.007.05.2026 02:405 km46 km
1.407.05.2026 02:385.7 km44 km
1.003.05.2026 21:5827.3 km39 km
1.003.05.2026 00:277 km59 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.