2.8
127,884
recorded earthquakes
M8.7
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.47
mean magnitude
125,571
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.7 | 11.11.1922 04:32 | 70 km | 2286 km |
| 8.4 | 23.06.2001 20:33 | 15.6 km | 2078 km |
| 8.3 | 16.09.2015 22:54 | 12.1 km | 2689 km |
| 8.2 | 09.06.1994 00:33 | 638 km | 1423 km |
| 8.2 | 17.08.1906 00:40 | 35 km | 2729 km |
| 8.2 | 09.12.1950 21:38 | 113.9 km | 1816 km |
| 8.1 | 01.04.2014 23:46 | 17.1 km | 1866 km |
| 8.1 | 06.04.1943 16:07 | 35 km | 2634 km |
| 8.0 | 31.07.1970 17:08 | 647.1 km | 2415 km |
| 8.0 | 30.07.1995 05:11 | 32.8 km | 1990 km |
| 8.0 | 26.05.2019 07:41 | 125.5 km | 2433 km |
| 7.9 | 03.03.1985 22:47 | 40.6 km | 2839 km |
| 7.9 | 26.12.1906 05:54 | 0 km | 2106 km |
| 7.9 | 17.01.1922 03:50 | 475 km | 2233 km |
| 7.8 | 09.07.1971 03:03 | 52.2 km | 2736 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 08:41 | 10 km | 2572 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 08:24 | 99.9 km | 2188 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 06:30 | 126 km | 1744 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 06:01 | 224.2 km | 1777 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 05:25 | 136.3 km | 1713 km |
| 3.9 | 04.08.2026 05:16 | 223 km | 1766 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 04:10 | 227.9 km | 1692 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 04:08 | 134.4 km | 1749 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 03:09 | 114.3 km | 2672 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 03:05 | 113 km | 2510 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 02:30 | 214.2 km | 1730 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 01:31 | 233.4 km | 1694 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 01:25 | 44.9 km | 2423 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 01:19 | 216.4 km | 1742 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 00:49 | 142 km | 2040 km |
| 3.3 | 04.08.2026 00:40 | 91.9 km | 2699 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 00:36 | 136.9 km | 1737 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 23:19 | 182 km | 1788 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 22:18 | 10 km | 2052 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 22:11 | 166.9 km | 1732 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 22:04 | 105 km | 2235 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 21:27 | 97.4 km | 1768 km |
| 4.4 | 03.08.2026 20:47 | 95.7 km | 2369 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 20:44 | 109.1 km | 1776 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 20:34 | 134.4 km | 1750 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:47 | 18 km | 2220 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:23 | 17 km | 2147 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:14 | 118.9 km | 1749 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 19:13 | 33 km | 2454 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:03 | 10 km | 2373 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 17:57 | 190 km | 1725 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 17:55 | 88.8 km | 2261 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 17:24 | 88.6 km | 1725 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 17:15 | 88 km | 2421 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 17:12 | 13 km | 2195 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 16:19 | 142 km | 2110 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:47 | 116.3 km | 1769 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 15:12 | 88 km | 2469 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 14:32 | 211.8 km | 1757 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 13:33 | 39.1 km | 2462 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 12:24 | 212.5 km | 1731 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 12:17 | 118 km | 2501 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 12:08 | 234.3 km | 1778 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 12:04 | 135.2 km | 1734 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:44 | 194.2 km | 1751 km |
| 4.6 | 03.08.2026 10:55 | 182.5 km | 1786 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 10:38 | 195.8 km | 1788 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 09:46 | 135.9 km | 1714 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 09:29 | 145 km | 1976 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 08:07 | 29.1 km | 2443 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 08:05 | 112 km | 2471 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 07:59 | 103.2 km | 2603 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 07:18 | 45 km | 1978 km |
| 4.0 | 03.08.2026 06:56 | 90.5 km | 1725 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 06:07 | 114.1 km | 1766 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 04:09 | 211.2 km | 1783 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 03:59 | 84 km | 2502 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 03:47 | 215.3 km | 1798 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2026 03:37 | 49.9 km | 2519 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 03:26 | 101.1 km | 1756 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.