3.0
14,160
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1903–2026
record span
2.44
mean magnitude
8,260
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 23.10.2011 10:41 | 7.6 km | 201 km |
| 7.1 | 06.05.1930 22:34 | 15 km | 223 km |
| 7.0 | 24.11.1976 12:22 | 11.9 km | 142 km |
| 6.7 | 07.12.1988 07:41 | 4.6 km | 112 km |
| 6.5 | 07.05.1940 22:23 | 50 km | 274 km |
| 6.5 | 11.08.2012 12:23 | 8.7 km | 243 km |
| 6.4 | 27.04.1931 16:50 | 15 km | 119 km |
| 6.3 | 11.08.2012 12:34 | 18.9 km | 243 km |
| 6.3 | 20.02.1920 11:44 | 15 km | 144 km |
| 6.3 | 28.04.1903 23:46 | 30 km | 240 km |
| 6.2 | 08.05.1930 15:35 | 15 km | 180 km |
| 6.2 | 28.09.1906 05:50 | 30 km | 202 km |
| 6.2 | 23.10.2011 11:32 | 17.4 km | 198 km |
| 6.0 | 01.05.1935 10:24 | 35 km | 183 km |
| 6.0 | 10.09.1941 21:53 | 35 km | 183 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 07:54 | 11.8 km | 104 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 07:54 | 6.4 km | 139 km |
| 1.8 | 04.08.2026 02:27 | 15.5 km | 186 km |
| 1.2 | 02.08.2026 22:28 | 7.1 km | 188 km |
| 1.3 | 28.07.2026 05:11 | 7 km | 172 km |
| 3.1 | 25.07.2026 13:16 | 13.5 km | 172 km |
| 1.9 | 25.07.2026 10:36 | 14.1 km | 140 km |
| 1.0 | 24.07.2026 22:40 | 6.5 km | 175 km |
| 1.4 | 24.07.2026 22:02 | 7 km | 199 km |
| 1.9 | 23.07.2026 21:43 | 7 km | 163 km |
| 1.0 | 22.07.2026 00:28 | 6.8 km | 148 km |
| 1.1 | 22.07.2026 00:25 | 12.5 km | 177 km |
| 1.8 | 22.07.2026 00:23 | 11.3 km | 178 km |
| 3.1 | 21.07.2026 20:34 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 2.3 | 21.07.2026 08:06 | 11.7 km | 176 km |
| 1.5 | 20.07.2026 21:57 | 11.9 km | 177 km |
| 1.9 | 20.07.2026 15:52 | 5.8 km | 184 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2026 10:53 | 7 km | 165 km |
| 1.9 | 19.07.2026 05:53 | 10.1 km | 177 km |
| 1.7 | 19.07.2026 05:17 | 11.5 km | 175 km |
| 1.2 | 17.07.2026 19:18 | 7 km | 182 km |
| 3.1 | 15.07.2026 18:44 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 1.5 | 14.07.2026 21:21 | 9.5 km | 178 km |
| 2.5 | 14.07.2026 06:57 | 80.8 km | 155 km |
| 1.7 | 14.07.2026 05:01 | 7 km | 188 km |
| 3.0 | 14.07.2026 04:32 | 7 km | 193 km |
| 2.2 | 11.07.2026 23:31 | 19.7 km | 187 km |
| 1.5 | 11.07.2026 22:53 | 12.2 km | 175 km |
| 1.7 | 11.07.2026 01:07 | 6.6 km | 86 km |
| 1.3 | 11.07.2026 00:25 | 11.5 km | 168 km |
| 1.5 | 10.07.2026 17:05 | 8.2 km | 178 km |
| 1.5 | 09.07.2026 18:13 | 9.5 km | 167 km |
| 2.2 | 09.07.2026 07:42 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 2.5 | 08.07.2026 23:59 | 7 km | 185 km |
| 1.2 | 08.07.2026 21:48 | 7 km | 185 km |
| 1.9 | 05.07.2026 14:51 | 16.9 km | 152 km |
| 2.1 | 05.07.2026 10:17 | 6.7 km | 106 km |
| 2.9 | 05.07.2026 07:16 | 16.3 km | 126 km |
| 1.9 | 05.07.2026 02:25 | 14.4 km | 154 km |
| 2.8 | 03.07.2026 21:08 | 7 km | 180 km |
| 2.2 | 03.07.2026 04:51 | 8 km | 159 km |
| 3.3 | 03.07.2026 03:45 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 1.6 | 02.07.2026 19:45 | 13.5 km | 182 km |
| 1.9 | 02.07.2026 15:05 | 7 km | 92 km |
| 1.3 | 01.07.2026 05:52 | 7 km | 173 km |
| 2.2 | 29.06.2026 20:50 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 1.8 | 29.06.2026 00:11 | 6.7 km | 169 km |
| 1.9 | 28.06.2026 18:06 | 11.3 km | 168 km |
| 2.2 | 27.06.2026 17:29 | 7 km | 197 km |
| 2.4 | 27.06.2026 15:16 | 6.9 km | 197 km |
| 1.8 | 26.06.2026 10:52 | 7 km | 195 km |
| 2.6 | 23.06.2026 09:26 | 8.9 km | 177 km |
| 2.2 | 23.06.2026 07:37 | 17 km | 187 km |
| 2.1 | 22.06.2026 05:03 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 2.2 | 20.06.2026 16:32 | 14.8 km | 175 km |
| 3.1 | 19.06.2026 15:17 | 7 km | 73 km |
| 2.2 | 18.06.2026 07:09 | 6.9 km | 94 km |
| 1.3 | 18.06.2026 05:24 | 7 km | 188 km |
| 1.5 | 17.06.2026 23:39 | 6.5 km | 97 km |
| 2.1 | 15.06.2026 18:39 | 6.9 km | 153 km |
Regions
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.