3.3
2,720
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.84
mean magnitude
939
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 13.06.2005 22:44 | 104.8 km | 216 km |
| 7.7 | 29.11.1957 22:19 | 232.5 km | 276 km |
| 7.6 | 06.06.1915 21:29 | 160 km | 96 km |
| 7.5 | 30.11.1976 00:40 | 78.1 km | 238 km |
| 7.5 | 25.08.1916 09:44 | 180 km | 269 km |
| 7.2 | 04.10.1940 07:55 | 35 km | 335 km |
| 7.2 | 04.10.1910 23:00 | 120 km | 236 km |
| 7.2 | 26.02.1914 04:58 | 130 km | 93 km |
| 7.2 | 08.08.1987 15:48 | 19.1 km | 267 km |
| 7.2 | 23.02.1933 08:09 | 35 km | 342 km |
| 7.1 | 14.06.1959 00:12 | 109.2 km | 240 km |
| 6.9 | 30.08.1906 02:38 | 60 km | 265 km |
| 6.8 | 05.03.1902 19:03 | 0 km | 297 km |
| 6.7 | 20.08.1965 09:42 | 124.8 km | 136 km |
| 6.7 | 25.02.1983 22:49 | 137.7 km | 177 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 03:21 | 101 km | 215 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 07:27 | 107.6 km | 222 km |
| 3.5 | 30.07.2026 12:46 | 245.2 km | 52 km |
| 4.6 | 30.07.2026 06:04 | 97.8 km | 231 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2026 01:08 | 117.3 km | 172 km |
| 2.5 | 25.07.2026 17:48 | 97.9 km | 218 km |
| 3.2 | 25.07.2026 10:53 | 240.5 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 24.07.2026 10:03 | 100 km | 220 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 18:08 | 109.6 km | 215 km |
| 3.2 | 23.07.2026 12:40 | 13.4 km | 207 km |
| 3.2 | 23.07.2026 09:21 | 5 km | 208 km |
| 3.0 | 23.07.2026 08:56 | 112 km | 174 km |
| 2.8 | 21.07.2026 13:54 | 101.4 km | 215 km |
| 2.7 | 20.07.2026 01:42 | 99.5 km | 220 km |
| 3.1 | 20.07.2026 01:28 | 252.6 km | 132 km |
| 2.5 | 14.07.2026 13:20 | 103 km | 201 km |
| 3.2 | 13.07.2026 01:05 | 107.7 km | 172 km |
| 2.5 | 12.07.2026 05:32 | 213.4 km | 105 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2026 13:20 | 96.4 km | 224 km |
| 2.8 | 08.07.2026 00:35 | 17.9 km | 203 km |
| 2.6 | 07.07.2026 13:11 | 219.1 km | 88 km |
| 3.0 | 05.07.2026 15:30 | 208.1 km | 75 km |
| 3.4 | 05.07.2026 11:29 | 253.6 km | 62 km |
| 2.8 | 04.07.2026 10:07 | 110.3 km | 190 km |
| 2.9 | 04.07.2026 05:36 | 115.4 km | 175 km |
| 4.2 | 04.07.2026 00:52 | 266.6 km | 68 km |
| 2.8 | 02.07.2026 22:04 | 99.5 km | 199 km |
| 2.8 | 01.07.2026 13:02 | 99.3 km | 212 km |
| 2.8 | 30.06.2026 21:44 | 117.2 km | 179 km |
| 3.0 | 30.06.2026 09:29 | 196.4 km | 137 km |
| 3.5 | 29.06.2026 10:04 | 250.3 km | 132 km |
| 3.1 | 26.06.2026 19:34 | 145.6 km | 159 km |
| 2.6 | 26.06.2026 03:04 | 96.2 km | 223 km |
| 2.7 | 24.06.2026 07:40 | 149.8 km | 141 km |
| 2.9 | 23.06.2026 21:32 | 97.6 km | 211 km |
| 3.4 | 23.06.2026 18:50 | 99.9 km | 224 km |
| 3.1 | 21.06.2026 01:24 | 251.2 km | 67 km |
| 3.0 | 19.06.2026 13:05 | 93.8 km | 225 km |
| 3.0 | 19.06.2026 00:05 | 254.7 km | 65 km |
| 3.1 | 18.06.2026 20:17 | 212.2 km | 105 km |
| 2.8 | 17.06.2026 13:21 | 101.2 km | 220 km |
| 2.7 | 16.06.2026 19:27 | 121.9 km | 194 km |
| 2.7 | 16.06.2026 05:01 | 110.3 km | 185 km |
| 3.3 | 14.06.2026 02:39 | 275 km | 66 km |
| 2.9 | 13.06.2026 23:14 | 8.4 km | 181 km |
| 2.9 | 13.06.2026 18:06 | 98.2 km | 213 km |
| 4.1 | 13.06.2026 09:58 | 113.8 km | 233 km |
| 3.0 | 12.06.2026 05:13 | 261.4 km | 141 km |
| 4.1 | 12.06.2026 03:50 | 106 km | 196 km |
| 3.3 | 11.06.2026 10:59 | 123.9 km | 173 km |
| 3.1 | 07.06.2026 22:22 | 115.4 km | 179 km |
| 3.0 | 06.06.2026 22:12 | 284.8 km | 89 km |
| 3.3 | 06.06.2026 04:19 | 261.3 km | 46 km |
| 2.8 | 01.06.2026 10:58 | 69.5 km | 225 km |
| 2.5 | 29.05.2026 16:28 | 83.8 km | 206 km |
| 3.1 | 28.05.2026 20:21 | 234.9 km | 153 km |
| 2.6 | 26.05.2026 21:32 | 99.8 km | 195 km |
| 3.5 | 26.05.2026 16:42 | 105.9 km | 221 km |
| 3.4 | 26.05.2026 16:25 | 107 km | 192 km |
| 2.7 | 25.05.2026 23:22 | 124 km | 166 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.