2.5
14,490
recorded earthquakes
M8.7
largest
1904–2026
record span
3.47
mean magnitude
12,758
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 | 258 km |
| 8.3 | 16.09.2015 22:54 | 12.1 km | 323 km |
| 8.2 | 17.08.1906 00:40 | 35 km | 347 km |
| 8.1 | 06.04.1943 16:07 | 35 km | 278 km |
| 7.8 | 09.07.1971 03:03 | 52.2 km | 352 km |
| 7.5 | 23.11.1977 09:26 | 10.4 km | 120 km |
| 7.4 | 18.04.1939 06:22 | 35 km | 412 km |
| 7.4 | 28.03.1965 16:33 | 70 km | 343 km |
| 7.1 | 15.01.1944 23:49 | 15 km | 114 km |
| 7.1 | 16.09.2015 23:18 | 29.4 km | 304 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.1997 01:03 | 56.9 km | 257 km |
| 7.0 | 19.04.1955 20:24 | 15 km | 316 km |
| 7.0 | 07.11.1922 23:00 | 25 km | 388 km |
| 7.0 | 19.03.1904 06:28 | 0 km | 271 km |
| 7.0 | 27.07.1917 02:51 | 60 km | 147 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 03:05 | 113 km | 143 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 22:04 | 105 km | 156 km |
| 4.4 | 03.08.2026 20:47 | 95.7 km | 251 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:47 | 18 km | 177 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 19:13 | 33 km | 157 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:03 | 10 km | 166 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 17:15 | 88 km | 99 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 16:19 | 142 km | 250 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 15:12 | 88 km | 164 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 12:17 | 118 km | 134 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 08:05 | 112 km | 169 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 07:59 | 103.2 km | 227 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 03:59 | 84 km | 136 km |
| 4.2 | 02.08.2026 22:07 | 115.5 km | 123 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 22:02 | 114 km | 221 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 19:48 | 10 km | 209 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 16:11 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 10:28 | 106 km | 161 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 09:29 | 120 km | 208 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2026 19:16 | 96 km | 150 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2026 09:00 | 10 km | 221 km |
| 4.0 | 31.07.2026 14:04 | 99.4 km | 303 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 12:08 | 120 km | 192 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 03:17 | 71.7 km | 280 km |
| 2.8 | 31.07.2026 02:13 | 10 km | 235 km |
| 4.0 | 30.07.2026 21:18 | 220.9 km | 125 km |
| 3.6 | 30.07.2026 15:58 | 112 km | 119 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 14:08 | 102 km | 122 km |
| 2.7 | 30.07.2026 11:08 | 83 km | 143 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 06:47 | 129.3 km | 94 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 02:33 | 125 km | 193 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 01:46 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 01:28 | 100 km | 249 km |
| 2.9 | 30.07.2026 01:14 | 105 km | 130 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2026 17:31 | 97 km | 107 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2026 15:39 | 119 km | 139 km |
| 2.6 | 29.07.2026 04:52 | 105 km | 90 km |
| 3.1 | 29.07.2026 02:13 | 115.8 km | 195 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 23:04 | 96 km | 110 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 20:17 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 19:36 | 117 km | 152 km |
| 2.7 | 28.07.2026 14:12 | 183 km | 90 km |
| 2.8 | 28.07.2026 12:48 | 72 km | 100 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 10:18 | 78 km | 216 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 09:46 | 102 km | 130 km |
| 3.3 | 28.07.2026 05:44 | 126 km | 193 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 05:07 | 120 km | 199 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 03:09 | 112 km | 114 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 01:31 | 23 km | 178 km |
| 3.3 | 28.07.2026 00:55 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 23:47 | 96 km | 100 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 21:31 | 83 km | 155 km |
| 3.8 | 27.07.2026 19:37 | 121 km | 197 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 16:16 | 126 km | 227 km |
| 2.7 | 27.07.2026 10:11 | 80 km | 98 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 09:31 | 49 km | 177 km |
| 2.9 | 27.07.2026 09:06 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 08:27 | 76 km | 122 km |
| 4.3 | 27.07.2026 03:44 | 102.1 km | 201 km |
| 3.1 | 26.07.2026 22:16 | 10 km | 163 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.