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Earthquakes in Van

27,734 earthquakes catalogued in and around Van between 1903 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
1.8
Latest earthquake · depth 15.5 km
04.08.2026 02:27 UTC · from centre 34 km
27,734
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1903–2026
record span
2.42
mean magnitude
25,225
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

0423684731903: 1 (M5+)19031907: 2 (M5+)1908: 1 (M5+)1913: 1 (M5+)19131915: 2 (M5+)1918: 1 (M5+)19231924: 3 (M5+)1926: 1 (M5+)1929: 1 (M5+)1930: 7 (M4–5)1930: 12 (M5+)1931: 1 (M4–5)1931: 1 (M5+)1932: 1 (M5+)1933: 1 (M5+)19331934: 1 (M5+)1935: 2 (M5+)1936: 2 (M5+)1937: 1 (M5+)1940: 3 (M5+)1941: 1 (M5+)19431945: 3 (M5+)1947: 1 (M5+)1951: 1 (M4–5)1952: 1 (M4–5)1953: 1 (M4–5)19531955: 1 (M4–5)1957: 1 (M4–5)1958: 1 (M4–5)1962: 1 (M4–5)19631964: 3 (M4–5)1965: 1 (M4–5)1966: 6 (M4–5)1966: 1 (M5+)1967: 2 (M4–5)1968: 1 (M4–5)1968: 1 (M5+)1969: 2 (M4–5)1970: 3 (M4–5)1970: 1 (M5+)1971: 1 (M4–5)1972: 1 (M4–5)1973: 1 (M3–4)1973: 2 (M4–5)19731974: 4 (M4–5)1975: 1 (M4–5)1976: 25 (M4–5)1976: 5 (M5+)1977: 12 (M4–5)1977: 3 (M5+)1978: 5 (M4–5)1979: 3 (M4–5)1982: 1 (M4–5)1983: 3 (M4–5)19831984: 4 (M4–5)1984: 1 (M5+)1985: 4 (M4–5)1986: 2 (M4–5)1987: 2 (M4–5)1988: 4 (M4–5)1988: 2 (M5+)1992: 1 (M3–4)19931995: 9 (M3–4)1995: 4 (M4–5)1996: 3 (M3–4)1996: 1 (M4–5)1997: 9 (M3–4)1997: 10 (M4–5)1998: 9 (M3–4)1998: 4 (M4–5)1999: 7 (M3–4)1999: 4 (M4–5)2000: 4 (M<3)2000: 87 (M3–4)2000: 2 (M4–5)2000: 4 (M5+)2001: 1 (M<3)2001: 31 (M3–4)2001: 4 (M4–5)2002: 15 (M3–4)2002: 4 (M4–5)2003: 2 (M<3)2003: 23 (M3–4)2003: 3 (M4–5)2003: 2 (M5+)20032004: 14 (M<3)2004: 44 (M3–4)2004: 8 (M4–5)2004: 2 (M5+)2005: 49 (M<3)2005: 225 (M3–4)2005: 21 (M4–5)2005: 2 (M5+)2006: 44 (M<3)2006: 101 (M3–4)2006: 3 (M4–5)2007: 101 (M<3)2007: 105 (M3–4)2007: 1 (M5+)2008: 102 (M<3)2008: 105 (M3–4)2008: 1 (M4–5)2009: 144 (M<3)2009: 99 (M3–4)2009: 1 (M4–5)2010: 228 (M<3)2010: 70 (M3–4)2010: 2 (M4–5)2011: 6,084 (M<3)2011: 2,286 (M3–4)2011: 87 (M4–5)2011: 16 (M5+)2012: 4,150 (M<3)2012: 620 (M3–4)2012: 19 (M4–5)2012: 4 (M5+)2013: 1,999 (M<3)2013: 198 (M3–4)2013: 7 (M4–5)20132014: 1,231 (M<3)2014: 63 (M3–4)2014: 8 (M4–5)2015: 1,244 (M<3)2015: 52 (M3–4)2015: 11 (M4–5)2016: 865 (M<3)2016: 35 (M3–4)2016: 8 (M4–5)2017: 813 (M<3)2017: 39 (M3–4)2017: 6 (M4–5)2018: 684 (M<3)2018: 38 (M3–4)2018: 4 (M4–5)2019: 575 (M<3)2019: 31 (M3–4)2019: 5 (M4–5)2020: 1,111 (M<3)2020: 106 (M3–4)2020: 24 (M4–5)2020: 3 (M5+)2021: 592 (M<3)2021: 43 (M3–4)2021: 5 (M4–5)2022: 887 (M<3)2022: 54 (M3–4)2022: 6 (M4–5)2022: 3 (M5+)2023: 493 (M<3)2023: 36 (M3–4)2023: 8 (M4–5)2023: 5 (M5+)20232024: 469 (M<3)2024: 16 (M3–4)2024: 4 (M4–5)2025: 429 (M<3)2025: 18 (M3–4)2025: 3 (M4–5)2026: 335 (M<3)2026: 21 (M3–4)2026: 1 (M4–5)2026: 1 (M5+)
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 km21 km
7.106.05.1930 22:3415 km118 km
7.024.11.1976 12:2211.9 km67 km
6.813.09.1924 14:3415 km208 km
6.819.08.1966 12:2219.1 km192 km
6.328.04.1903 23:4630 km110 km
6.208.05.1930 15:3515 km130 km
6.223.10.2011 11:3217.4 km26 km
6.001.05.1935 10:2435 km115 km
6.028.09.1908 06:2830 km74 km
6.010.09.1941 21:5335 km115 km
6.023.10.2011 20:4510.1 km39 km
5.928.01.2023 18:148.5 km120 km
5.923.02.2020 16:005.6 km83 km
5.825.01.2005 16:4413.1 km102 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
1.804.08.2026 02:2715.5 km34 km
2.902.08.2026 22:497 km89 km
1.202.08.2026 22:287.1 km29 km
2.102.08.2026 14:507.1 km25 km
1.402.08.2026 00:087 km46 km
1.931.07.2026 09:407.1 km37 km
2.531.07.2026 08:067 km33 km
1.228.07.2026 23:2218.7 km43 km
1.328.07.2026 05:117 km37 km
2.126.07.2026 17:367 km93 km
1.024.07.2026 22:406.5 km39 km
1.424.07.2026 22:027 km21 km
1.824.07.2026 04:567 km87 km
1.923.07.2026 21:437 km53 km
1.823.07.2026 13:407 km62 km
1.122.07.2026 00:2512.5 km45 km
1.822.07.2026 00:2311.3 km40 km
0.922.07.2026 00:057 km46 km
1.321.07.2026 21:457 km36 km
2.321.07.2026 08:0611.7 km44 km
1.520.07.2026 21:5711.9 km41 km
1.920.07.2026 15:525.8 km30 km
1.520.07.2026 12:137 km75 km
2.120.07.2026 12:127 km82 km
1.319.07.2026 20:2115.6 km32 km
2.019.07.2026 18:506.9 km35 km
1.919.07.2026 05:5310.1 km41 km
1.719.07.2026 05:1711.5 km42 km
1.217.07.2026 19:187 km28 km
1.717.07.2026 01:337 km38 km
1.517.07.2026 00:007 km41 km
2.316.07.2026 09:447 km93 km
2.115.07.2026 03:5810.5 km44 km
1.514.07.2026 21:219.5 km39 km
2.514.07.2026 06:5780.8 km59 km
1.714.07.2026 05:017 km27 km
3.014.07.2026 04:327 km19 km
2.211.07.2026 23:3119.7 km30 km
1.511.07.2026 22:5312.2 km45 km
1.611.07.2026 01:4122.3 km33 km
1.710.07.2026 19:1215.8 km65 km
1.509.07.2026 18:139.5 km48 km
1.409.07.2026 01:1510.5 km107 km
2.508.07.2026 23:597 km33 km
1.208.07.2026 21:487 km39 km
2.008.07.2026 14:477 km62 km
2.807.07.2026 03:537 km39 km
1.606.07.2026 12:157.1 km10 km
1.406.07.2026 00:447 km71 km
1.705.07.2026 17:057.1 km37 km
2.503.07.2026 21:547 km72 km
2.203.07.2026 06:137 km80 km
2.603.07.2026 05:287 km73 km
1.303.07.2026 04:367 km65 km
1.202.07.2026 20:556.8 km67 km
1.602.07.2026 19:4513.5 km28 km
1.702.07.2026 15:467 km33 km
2.502.07.2026 15:4013.7 km28 km
1.301.07.2026 20:537 km67 km
2.001.07.2026 12:577 km70 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.