List of earthquakes in Turkey

This list includes any notable historical earthquakes that have epicenters within the current boundaries of Turkey, or which caused significant effects in this area.

The western part of the country is also affected by the zone of extensional tectonics in the Aegean Sea caused by the southward migration of the Hellenic arc.

[8] After the 2011 Van earthquakes Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: "Municipalities, constructors and supervisors should now see that their negligence amounts to murder.

[6][10] Improvements included design supervision and site specific hazard definitions,[11] and for new buildings in vulnerable regions required rebar in high quality concrete.

[2] In a bid to shore up support going into the 2018 Turkish presidential election, the government offered amnesties for violations of the building code, allowing non-compliance to continue with the payment of a fee.