2.5
3,764
recorded earthquakes
M8.7
largest
1903–2026
record span
3.72
mean magnitude
2,978
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.7 | 11.11.1922 04:32 | 70 km | 289 km |
| 8.2 | 09.12.1950 21:38 | 113.9 km | 418 km |
| 7.7 | 28.12.1966 08:18 | 22.1 km | 425 km |
| 7.6 | 04.10.1983 18:52 | 28.6 km | 369 km |
| 7.5 | 05.03.1987 09:17 | 41.4 km | 478 km |
| 7.5 | 04.12.1918 11:47 | 40 km | 376 km |
| 7.5 | 23.11.1977 09:26 | 10.4 km | 392 km |
| 7.2 | 23.06.1991 21:22 | 563.4 km | 361 km |
| 7.2 | 08.06.1909 05:46 | 35 km | 367 km |
| 7.2 | 02.12.1960 09:10 | 35 km | 459 km |
| 7.2 | 05.02.1988 14:01 | 37.9 km | 471 km |
| 7.1 | 13.07.1936 11:12 | 35 km | 447 km |
| 7.1 | 15.01.1944 23:49 | 15 km | 438 km |
| 7.1 | 06.09.1910 19:59 | 0 km | 417 km |
| 7.1 | 25.08.1948 06:09 | 30 km | 424 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 08:24 | 99.9 km | 211 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 00:49 | 142 km | 53 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 22:18 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 22:04 | 105 km | 207 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:47 | 18 km | 192 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 16:19 | 142 km | 92 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 09:29 | 145 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 22:02 | 114 km | 122 km |
| 4.3 | 02.08.2026 20:53 | 139.2 km | 66 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 12:23 | 125 km | 61 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2026 22:15 | 130 km | 81 km |
| 3.0 | 31.07.2026 17:51 | 123.4 km | 171 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 12:08 | 120 km | 173 km |
| 2.8 | 31.07.2026 02:13 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 2.8 | 30.07.2026 16:06 | 92.8 km | 183 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 06:47 | 129.3 km | 316 km |
| 2.9 | 30.07.2026 03:52 | 352 km | 204 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 03:43 | 166 km | 32 km |
| 4.1 | 29.07.2026 09:04 | 106 km | 221 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 19:44 | 100.9 km | 215 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 19:36 | 117 km | 198 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 17:39 | 180 km | 71 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 05:07 | 120 km | 152 km |
| 3.3 | 28.07.2026 00:55 | 10 km | 335 km |
| 3.0 | 27.07.2026 18:09 | 114.6 km | 197 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 16:16 | 126 km | 116 km |
| 2.9 | 27.07.2026 09:06 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.3 | 27.07.2026 03:44 | 102.1 km | 264 km |
| 2.8 | 26.07.2026 18:44 | 124 km | 187 km |
| 4.6 | 26.07.2026 17:29 | 139.2 km | 56 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 15:41 | 119.2 km | 307 km |
| 2.7 | 26.07.2026 09:39 | 181 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2026 11:41 | 105 km | 188 km |
| 2.8 | 25.07.2026 10:32 | 112.1 km | 173 km |
| 4.8 | 24.07.2026 15:34 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 3.1 | 24.07.2026 14:16 | 95.8 km | 339 km |
| 3.9 | 24.07.2026 02:11 | 126 km | 199 km |
| 3.3 | 24.07.2026 01:11 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 2.6 | 23.07.2026 06:17 | 123 km | 248 km |
| 2.7 | 22.07.2026 20:28 | 111 km | 121 km |
| 2.9 | 22.07.2026 12:25 | 182 km | 35 km |
| 2.9 | 22.07.2026 06:05 | 128 km | 248 km |
| 4.4 | 21.07.2026 14:55 | 174.6 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2026 16:52 | 158 km | 121 km |
| 2.7 | 20.07.2026 02:33 | 137 km | 47 km |
| 3.2 | 20.07.2026 00:05 | 113 km | 224 km |
| 3.0 | 19.07.2026 21:54 | 107.4 km | 275 km |
| 2.5 | 19.07.2026 10:38 | 117 km | 122 km |
| 2.6 | 19.07.2026 05:33 | 144 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 18.07.2026 11:55 | 169 km | 55 km |
| 3.4 | 18.07.2026 06:36 | 146 km | 100 km |
| 3.0 | 18.07.2026 01:46 | 131 km | 99 km |
| 3.1 | 17.07.2026 19:45 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 3.0 | 17.07.2026 16:50 | 153 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 17.07.2026 12:39 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 3.0 | 17.07.2026 05:06 | 97.6 km | 225 km |
| 2.7 | 16.07.2026 11:25 | 121 km | 141 km |
| 2.5 | 14.07.2026 15:36 | 131 km | 84 km |
| 2.9 | 14.07.2026 00:56 | 142 km | 40 km |
| 3.6 | 14.07.2026 00:12 | 116.7 km | 213 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.