2.5
18,582
recorded earthquakes
M8.3
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.57
mean magnitude
16,413
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | 19.08.1977 06:08 | 33 km | 2883 km |
| 7.9 | 30.04.1939 02:55 | 15 km | 3365 km |
| 7.8 | 23.12.2004 14:59 | 33 km | 2958 km |
| 7.8 | 02.06.1994 18:17 | 32.1 km | 3262 km |
| 7.6 | 06.09.1943 03:41 | 10 km | 3220 km |
| 7.5 | 07.02.1984 21:33 | 16.4 km | 3390 km |
| 7.3 | 20.10.1938 02:19 | 90 km | 2868 km |
| 7.3 | 03.10.1926 19:38 | 10 km | 2977 km |
| 7.3 | 18.08.1968 18:38 | 536.6 km | 3346 km |
| 7.2 | 20.04.1977 23:42 | 24.9 km | 3387 km |
| 7.2 | 14.10.1991 15:58 | 30.5 km | 3340 km |
| 7.2 | 25.01.1926 00:36 | 15 km | 3320 km |
| 7.2 | 25.05.1901 00:32 | 0 km | 3367 km |
| 7.2 | 11.09.1916 06:30 | 100 km | 3381 km |
| 7.2 | 24.07.1924 04:55 | 15 km | 2880 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 04:35 | 13 km | 2898 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:52 | 17 km | 2956 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 12:23 | 10 km | 3266 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 20:37 | 10 km | 2912 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 17:47 | 11.6 km | 1996 km |
| 1.1 | 02.08.2026 12:41 | 10 km | 276 km |
| 3.4 | 02.08.2026 09:24 | 9 km | 2929 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 04:17 | 17 km | 2737 km |
| 2.5 | 01.08.2026 11:05 | 8 km | 2914 km |
| 3.4 | 31.07.2026 11:06 | 24 km | 2941 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 03:20 | 5 km | 2938 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 19:02 | 29 km | 2743 km |
| 3.4 | 30.07.2026 13:58 | 10 km | 2826 km |
| 3.5 | 30.07.2026 00:44 | 10 km | 2922 km |
| 3.5 | 29.07.2026 23:27 | 10 km | 3198 km |
| 3.4 | 29.07.2026 13:18 | 10 km | 3162 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2026 05:45 | 24 km | 2901 km |
| 2.3 | 28.07.2026 03:41 | 2.3 km | 1718 km |
| 3.9 | 28.07.2026 02:20 | 10 km | 3245 km |
| 3.0 | 27.07.2026 23:19 | 32 km | 2749 km |
| 3.3 | 27.07.2026 21:43 | 2.8 km | 1712 km |
| 3.5 | 27.07.2026 21:33 | 10 km | 2932 km |
| 2.7 | 27.07.2026 21:23 | 5.8 km | 1716 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 11:34 | 25 km | 2693 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 08:16 | 27 km | 2746 km |
| 2.7 | 27.07.2026 05:47 | 37 km | 2735 km |
| 3.5 | 27.07.2026 05:43 | 10 km | 3273 km |
| 3.6 | 27.07.2026 00:17 | 12 km | 3167 km |
| 2.1 | 26.07.2026 20:50 | 6.9 km | 1157 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 18:35 | 7 km | 2922 km |
| 2.7 | 26.07.2026 15:14 | 37 km | 2736 km |
| 3.0 | 26.07.2026 11:33 | 21 km | 2747 km |
| 5.4 | 26.07.2026 10:57 | 38 km | 2746 km |
| 2.8 | 26.07.2026 05:02 | 11 km | 2857 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2026 19:38 | 29 km | 2945 km |
| 2.8 | 25.07.2026 17:35 | 9 km | 2918 km |
| 2.8 | 25.07.2026 17:18 | 11 km | 2920 km |
| 4.0 | 25.07.2026 05:08 | 13 km | 3247 km |
| 3.5 | 24.07.2026 21:33 | 10 km | 3271 km |
| 2.7 | 24.07.2026 18:07 | 11.6 km | 1574 km |
| 2.7 | 23.07.2026 20:00 | 21 km | 2943 km |
| 3.1 | 23.07.2026 11:45 | 19 km | 2948 km |
| 3.0 | 23.07.2026 02:24 | 5 km | 1212 km |
| 3.6 | 22.07.2026 22:29 | 10 km | 3035 km |
| 3.0 | 22.07.2026 21:15 | 10 km | 2898 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 20:29 | 11.2 km | 1418 km |
| 3.9 | 22.07.2026 13:27 | 10 km | 2959 km |
| 2.9 | 22.07.2026 09:30 | 16 km | 2769 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 19:31 | 9.5 km | 1191 km |
| 3.5 | 21.07.2026 17:49 | 4 km | 2773 km |
| 3.5 | 21.07.2026 16:45 | 10 km | 3155 km |
| 3.3 | 21.07.2026 16:43 | 10 km | 2925 km |
| 2.5 | 21.07.2026 16:11 | 13 km | 2975 km |
| 2.5 | 21.07.2026 14:42 | 28 km | 2959 km |
| 3.2 | 21.07.2026 13:59 | 10 km | 2909 km |
| 3.6 | 21.07.2026 12:46 | 67 km | 3004 km |
| 3.5 | 21.07.2026 09:49 | 25 km | 2898 km |
| 3.8 | 21.07.2026 08:01 | 10 km | 3137 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 02:26 | 10 km | 2309 km |
| 2.9 | 20.07.2026 21:37 | 7 km | 2637 km |
Regions
Western Australia4,641South Australia1,333New South Wales1,160Queensland850Victoria769Northern Territory762
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.