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@beginer1 You did not say whether you live in a presidential declared disaster area where the IRS has postponed the filing date and payments due after Jan 9, 2023 to Oct 16, 2023. Some of answers will be different if you do.
Anyway, here are my answers to your questions:
To make a 2022 Q4 ES payment today, you should click on this link, https://www.irs.gov/payments, and follow the instructions. If you don't live in a disaster area, your payment for 2022 Q4ES and balance due need to be paid by Apr 15, 2023. However, if you do live in one of the presidential declared disaster areas, then it's not too late to make the payment now (by Oct 16, 2023) and avoid all late payment penalties and reduce some or all of the underpayment penalties. Just pay everything as 2022 Q4ES and suppress penalty calculations in TurboTax, assuming that can be done. IRS will bill you for any underpayment penalties you may owe. I'm new to TurboTax and still don't know exactly what can or cannot be done. So I don't know if you can suppress penalties calculation in TurboTax. Don't worry if you can't. IRS should refund any penalties you overpay.
Answer to your 2nd question is NO if you don't live in a disaster area, but MAY BE if you live in a presidential declared disaster area as only underpayment for the 4th quarter could be waived. Also see the next paragraph as you may be able to annualize your income and avoid all underpayment penalties.
Estimated taxes must be paid each quarter when there is insufficient withholding unless your income aren't earned evenly throughout the year. See Form 2210 instruction, https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i2210#en_US_2022_publink[phone number removed], on Annualized Income Installment Method. Otherwise, the 4 ES payments should be paid evenly.
P.S. Just saw your additional post. I think I have answered most of your questions above. Since you now indicated you live in a presidential declared disaster area, Yes, the 2023 Q1, Q2 and Q3 ES payments are not due until Oct 16. You can go to the IRS website I gave above to make those payments. But bear in mind that those are for 2023 taxes.