2.8
108,863
recorded earthquakes
M9.6
largest
1903–2026
record span
3.47
mean magnitude
105,618
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.6 | 22.05.1960 19:11 | 25 km | 854 km |
| 8.8 | 27.02.2010 06:34 | 22.9 km | 845 km |
| 8.7 | 11.11.1922 04:32 | 70 km | 1251 km |
| 8.3 | 16.09.2015 22:54 | 12.1 km | 1032 km |
| 8.2 | 17.08.1906 00:40 | 35 km | 953 km |
| 8.2 | 21.05.1960 10:02 | 25 km | 851 km |
| 8.2 | 09.12.1950 21:38 | 113.9 km | 1650 km |
| 8.1 | 06.04.1943 16:07 | 35 km | 1044 km |
| 8.0 | 30.07.1995 05:11 | 32.8 km | 1780 km |
| 7.9 | 03.03.1985 22:47 | 40.6 km | 921 km |
| 7.9 | 22.05.1960 18:56 | 25 km | 822 km |
| 7.8 | 09.07.1971 03:03 | 52.2 km | 923 km |
| 7.8 | 17.12.1949 15:07 | 10 km | 1806 km |
| 7.8 | 17.12.1949 06:53 | 10 km | 1803 km |
| 7.7 | 03.04.2014 02:43 | 12 km | 2073 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 08:41 | 10 km | 796 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 08:24 | 99.9 km | 1281 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 06:30 | 126 km | 1915 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 06:01 | 224.2 km | 1646 km |
| 3.9 | 04.08.2026 05:16 | 223 km | 1652 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 04:10 | 227.9 km | 1700 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 04:08 | 134.4 km | 1905 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 03:09 | 114.3 km | 853 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 03:05 | 113 km | 921 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 02:30 | 214.2 km | 1646 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 01:31 | 233.4 km | 1716 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 01:25 | 44.9 km | 1261 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 01:19 | 216.4 km | 1627 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 00:49 | 142 km | 1266 km |
| 3.3 | 04.08.2026 00:40 | 91.9 km | 848 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 23:19 | 182 km | 1601 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 22:18 | 10 km | 1284 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 22:11 | 166.9 km | 1751 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 22:04 | 105 km | 1133 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 21:27 | 97.4 km | 1856 km |
| 4.4 | 03.08.2026 20:47 | 95.7 km | 1231 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 20:44 | 109.1 km | 1856 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 20:34 | 134.4 km | 1901 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:47 | 18 km | 1152 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:23 | 17 km | 858 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 19:13 | 33 km | 847 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:03 | 10 km | 847 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 17:57 | 190 km | 1628 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 17:55 | 88.8 km | 1335 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 17:15 | 88 km | 902 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 17:12 | 13 km | 810 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 16:19 | 142 km | 1164 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:47 | 116.3 km | 1864 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 15:12 | 88 km | 843 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 14:32 | 211.8 km | 1614 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 13:33 | 39.1 km | 1253 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 12:24 | 212.5 km | 1630 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 12:17 | 118 km | 923 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 12:08 | 234.3 km | 1605 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:44 | 194.2 km | 1625 km |
| 4.6 | 03.08.2026 10:55 | 182.5 km | 1580 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 10:38 | 195.8 km | 1607 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 09:29 | 145 km | 1316 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 08:07 | 29.1 km | 1276 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 08:05 | 112 km | 838 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 07:59 | 103.2 km | 955 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 07:18 | 45 km | 1838 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 06:07 | 114.1 km | 1869 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 04:09 | 211.2 km | 1680 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 03:59 | 84 km | 921 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 03:47 | 215.3 km | 1625 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2026 03:37 | 49.9 km | 1143 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 03:23 | 262.1 km | 1661 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 02:43 | 103 km | 1854 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 02:14 | 24.2 km | 907 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 01:57 | 10 km | 735 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 00:31 | 63.4 km | 1345 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 23:53 | 100.7 km | 1748 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 22:49 | 208.2 km | 1635 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 22:15 | 17.7 km | 1012 km |
Regions
Salta21,382San Juan14,490Mendoza12,803Jujuy11,722La Rioja11,118Catamarca3,764Neuquén1,319San Luis585Río Negro514Santiago del Estero380Córdoba273Tucumán257Chaco204Santa Cruz198
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.