2.5
35,264
recorded earthquakes
M8.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.38
mean magnitude
32,485
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.2 | 09.06.1994 00:33 | 638 km | 511 km |
| 8.2 | 09.12.1950 21:38 | 113.9 km | 972 km |
| 8.1 | 01.04.2014 23:46 | 17.1 km | 855 km |
| 8.0 | 30.07.1995 05:11 | 32.8 km | 1060 km |
| 7.8 | 13.06.2005 22:44 | 104.8 km | 715 km |
| 7.7 | 03.04.2014 02:43 | 12 km | 880 km |
| 7.7 | 14.11.2007 15:40 | 42.9 km | 960 km |
| 7.7 | 29.11.1957 22:19 | 232.5 km | 617 km |
| 7.7 | 15.08.1963 17:25 | 550 km | 681 km |
| 7.6 | 06.06.1915 21:29 | 160 km | 581 km |
| 7.6 | 19.08.1961 05:09 | 612.2 km | 987 km |
| 7.5 | 24.11.2015 22:45 | 609.3 km | 1010 km |
| 7.5 | 30.11.1976 00:40 | 78.1 km | 721 km |
| 7.5 | 25.08.1916 09:44 | 180 km | 705 km |
| 7.5 | 26.07.1958 17:37 | 612.4 km | 699 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 06:30 | 126 km | 806 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 05:25 | 136.3 km | 774 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 04:08 | 134.4 km | 814 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 00:36 | 136.9 km | 798 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 22:11 | 166.9 km | 866 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 21:27 | 97.4 km | 847 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 20:44 | 109.1 km | 854 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 20:34 | 134.4 km | 817 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:14 | 118.9 km | 786 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 17:24 | 88.6 km | 739 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:47 | 116.3 km | 845 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 12:04 | 135.2 km | 775 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 09:46 | 135.9 km | 765 km |
| 4.0 | 03.08.2026 06:56 | 90.5 km | 741 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 06:07 | 114.1 km | 841 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 03:26 | 101.1 km | 794 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 02:43 | 103 km | 853 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 18:26 | 109.1 km | 666 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 16:34 | 83.1 km | 755 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 15:38 | 109.6 km | 783 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 14:48 | 129.8 km | 751 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 14:33 | 125.4 km | 823 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 13:24 | 89.8 km | 694 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 13:16 | 14.2 km | 718 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 12:42 | 107.5 km | 880 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 12:32 | 103.1 km | 693 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 11:46 | 196 km | 829 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 10:16 | 126.4 km | 793 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 10:03 | 119.4 km | 856 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 09:04 | 224.3 km | 803 km |
| 3.5 | 02.08.2026 06:26 | 129.8 km | 808 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 03:55 | 226.1 km | 760 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 03:21 | 101 km | 716 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 03:11 | 95.1 km | 692 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2026 02:43 | 187.3 km | 675 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 00:01 | 132.5 km | 805 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2026 19:21 | 188 km | 711 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 17:43 | 221.7 km | 694 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2026 13:11 | 120.7 km | 813 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2026 13:06 | 74.1 km | 806 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 12:19 | 199.8 km | 820 km |
| 3.1 | 01.08.2026 11:46 | 102.2 km | 849 km |
| 2.8 | 01.08.2026 11:21 | 64.7 km | 714 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2026 10:48 | 231.5 km | 812 km |
| 3.9 | 01.08.2026 07:57 | 105.7 km | 866 km |
| 4.4 | 01.08.2026 07:50 | 142.9 km | 771 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 07:27 | 107.6 km | 724 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2026 06:49 | 125.3 km | 789 km |
| 2.5 | 31.07.2026 23:34 | 108.6 km | 787 km |
| 2.9 | 31.07.2026 21:32 | 93.3 km | 765 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 19:31 | 125.1 km | 801 km |
| 3.4 | 31.07.2026 17:58 | 75.9 km | 876 km |
| 2.9 | 31.07.2026 16:31 | 95.5 km | 788 km |
| 2.5 | 31.07.2026 15:16 | 127.2 km | 808 km |
| 3.6 | 31.07.2026 11:19 | 341 km | 749 km |
| 2.9 | 31.07.2026 07:35 | 147.5 km | 787 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 03:37 | 109.6 km | 837 km |
| 2.9 | 31.07.2026 01:35 | 117.2 km | 786 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 00:21 | 128 km | 783 km |
| 2.6 | 30.07.2026 21:46 | 118.4 km | 786 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.