2.9
16,795
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.14
mean magnitude
15,973
epicentre inside the border
By year
Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.
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.
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 30.05.1935 21:32 | 25 km | 566 km |
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 377 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 363 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 400 km |
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 655 km |
| 7.6 | 09.06.1956 23:13 | 25 km | 137 km |
| 7.6 | 08.10.2005 03:50 | 8.2 km | 559 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 404 km |
| 7.4 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 590 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 391 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 422 km |
| 7.4 | 30.12.1983 23:52 | 215.6 km | 390 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 389 km |
| 7.3 | 03.03.2002 12:08 | 204.8 km | 383 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.2023 00:37 | 18.4 km | 690 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 20:07 | 5 km | 680 km |
| 4.4 | 31.07.2026 20:26 | 45.8 km | 475 km |
| 3.1 | 31.07.2026 11:36 | 20 km | 672 km |
| 4.3 | 31.07.2026 09:44 | 10 km | 297 km |
| 4.4 | 30.07.2026 09:38 | 10 km | 780 km |
| 4.5 | 30.07.2026 09:20 | 10 km | 781 km |
| 4.5 | 28.07.2026 06:57 | 132 km | 504 km |
| 4.6 | 27.07.2026 17:47 | 109.1 km | 475 km |
| 4.2 | 27.07.2026 03:09 | 168.4 km | 469 km |
| 4.5 | 26.07.2026 06:48 | 173.4 km | 554 km |
| 4.7 | 25.07.2026 18:54 | 57.2 km | 587 km |
| 4.1 | 25.07.2026 16:56 | 126 km | 326 km |
| 4.2 | 25.07.2026 03:04 | 168.6 km | 590 km |
| 4.5 | 21.07.2026 23:44 | 122.1 km | 266 km |
| 4.0 | 21.07.2026 10:18 | 209 km | 434 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2026 01:09 | 10 km | 596 km |
| 3.1 | 19.07.2026 22:59 | 28.2 km | 617 km |
| 4.7 | 19.07.2026 22:58 | 91.8 km | 369 km |
| 4.5 | 18.07.2026 23:47 | 117.8 km | 289 km |
| 4.5 | 18.07.2026 18:26 | 10 km | 401 km |
| 4.8 | 18.07.2026 10:36 | 136.8 km | 652 km |
| 4.2 | 17.07.2026 19:20 | 211 km | 431 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2026 03:22 | 208.6 km | 431 km |
| 3.6 | 12.07.2026 20:30 | 10 km | 626 km |
| 3.6 | 12.07.2026 09:52 | 97.4 km | 305 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 01:15 | 155.1 km | 763 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2026 06:14 | 228.8 km | 566 km |
| 3.3 | 08.07.2026 01:24 | 10 km | 432 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2026 14:04 | 179.9 km | 602 km |
| 3.5 | 03.07.2026 04:45 | 167.6 km | 794 km |
| 3.9 | 03.07.2026 03:00 | 85.7 km | 436 km |
| 4.3 | 02.07.2026 07:50 | 10 km | 560 km |
| 5.5 | 01.07.2026 17:57 | 198.8 km | 387 km |
| 4.0 | 30.06.2026 14:58 | 0 km | 630 km |
| 3.8 | 29.06.2026 11:33 | 193.3 km | 405 km |
| 4.1 | 28.06.2026 21:31 | 146.9 km | 400 km |
| 6.2 | 27.06.2026 13:34 | 203 km | 401 km |
| 5.2 | 27.06.2026 03:06 | 10 km | 432 km |
| 3.9 | 27.06.2026 01:54 | 0 km | 651 km |
| 3.7 | 27.06.2026 00:44 | 0 km | 409 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2026 16:15 | 91 km | 303 km |
| 5.5 | 26.06.2026 11:48 | 10 km | 430 km |
| 3.3 | 26.06.2026 07:00 | 20 km | 556 km |
| 3.8 | 26.06.2026 05:57 | 10 km | 436 km |
| 3.3 | 24.06.2026 17:53 | 10 km | 433 km |
| 4.9 | 22.06.2026 20:14 | 308 km | 158 km |
| 5.2 | 22.06.2026 10:22 | 209.1 km | 403 km |
| 3.7 | 21.06.2026 08:28 | 119.5 km | 398 km |
| 4.1 | 19.06.2026 02:01 | 115.2 km | 332 km |
| 4.1 | 19.06.2026 02:01 | 0 km | 292 km |
| 3.5 | 18.06.2026 23:00 | 182.7 km | 576 km |
| 4.2 | 14.06.2026 17:54 | 205.4 km | 421 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2026 15:46 | 0 km | 264 km |
| 4.2 | 14.06.2026 15:08 | 0 km | 692 km |
| 3.4 | 14.06.2026 13:56 | 220.8 km | 443 km |
| 3.5 | 12.06.2026 18:27 | 101.1 km | 305 km |
| 3.6 | 10.06.2026 16:36 | 103.7 km | 514 km |
| 4.4 | 09.06.2026 22:09 | 135 km | 490 km |
| 3.7 | 09.06.2026 16:03 | 0 km | 412 km |
| 4.4 | 09.06.2026 15:34 | 110 km | 493 km |
Regions
Badakhshan11,857Takhar3,625Nuristan2,011Baghlan1,566Parwan884Kunduz714Kandahar504Kunar301Nangarhar287Laghman278Samangan277Herat254Balkh220
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.