2.8
142,668
recorded earthquakes
M9.6
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.47
mean magnitude
141,301
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.6 | 22.05.1960 19:11 | 25 km | 1307 km |
| 8.8 | 27.02.2010 06:34 | 22.9 km | 1342 km |
| 8.7 | 11.11.1922 04:32 | 70 km | 1866 km |
| 8.4 | 23.06.2001 20:33 | 15.6 km | 2606 km |
| 8.3 | 16.09.2015 22:54 | 12.1 km | 1556 km |
| 8.2 | 09.12.1950 21:38 | 113.9 km | 2280 km |
| 8.2 | 17.08.1906 00:40 | 35 km | 1551 km |
| 8.2 | 21.05.1960 10:02 | 25 km | 1308 km |
| 8.1 | 01.04.2014 23:46 | 17.1 km | 2441 km |
| 8.1 | 06.04.1943 16:07 | 35 km | 1598 km |
| 8.0 | 30.07.1995 05:11 | 32.8 km | 2168 km |
| 7.9 | 03.03.1985 22:47 | 40.6 km | 1480 km |
| 7.9 | 26.12.1906 05:54 | 0 km | 2287 km |
| 7.9 | 22.05.1960 18:56 | 25 km | 1338 km |
| 7.8 | 06.08.1913 22:14 | 25 km | 2580 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 08:41 | 10 km | 1760 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 08:24 | 99.9 km | 1951 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 06:30 | 126 km | 2402 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 06:01 | 224.2 km | 2313 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 05:25 | 136.3 km | 2431 km |
| 3.9 | 04.08.2026 05:16 | 223 km | 2322 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 04:10 | 227.9 km | 2390 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 04:08 | 134.4 km | 2394 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 03:09 | 114.3 km | 1644 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 03:05 | 113 km | 1754 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 02:30 | 214.2 km | 2353 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 01:31 | 233.4 km | 2391 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 01:25 | 44.9 km | 1740 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 01:19 | 216.4 km | 2341 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 00:49 | 142 km | 2094 km |
| 3.3 | 04.08.2026 00:40 | 91.9 km | 1625 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 00:36 | 136.9 km | 2409 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 23:19 | 182 km | 2300 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 22:18 | 10 km | 2078 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 22:11 | 166.9 km | 2365 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 22:04 | 105 km | 1938 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 21:27 | 97.4 km | 2364 km |
| 4.4 | 03.08.2026 20:47 | 95.7 km | 1793 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 20:44 | 109.1 km | 2357 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 20:34 | 134.4 km | 2392 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:47 | 18 km | 1947 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:14 | 118.9 km | 2426 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 19:13 | 33 km | 1842 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:03 | 10 km | 1922 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 17:57 | 190 km | 2356 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 17:55 | 88.8 km | 1880 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 17:24 | 88.6 km | 2484 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 17:15 | 88 km | 1846 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 16:19 | 142 km | 2051 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:47 | 116.3 km | 2366 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 15:12 | 88 km | 1830 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 14:32 | 211.8 km | 2327 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 13:33 | 39.1 km | 1706 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 12:24 | 212.5 km | 2351 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 12:17 | 118 km | 1761 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 12:08 | 234.3 km | 2309 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 12:04 | 135.2 km | 2434 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:44 | 194.2 km | 2333 km |
| 4.6 | 03.08.2026 10:55 | 182.5 km | 2300 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 10:38 | 195.8 km | 2300 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 09:46 | 135.9 km | 2440 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 09:29 | 145 km | 2146 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 08:07 | 29.1 km | 1721 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 08:05 | 112 km | 1831 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 07:59 | 103.2 km | 1657 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 07:18 | 45 km | 2196 km |
| 4.0 | 03.08.2026 06:56 | 90.5 km | 2481 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 06:07 | 114.1 km | 2369 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 04:09 | 211.2 km | 2312 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 03:59 | 84 km | 1761 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 03:47 | 215.3 km | 2293 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2026 03:37 | 49.9 km | 1673 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 03:26 | 101.1 km | 2418 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 03:23 | 262.1 km | 2353 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 02:43 | 103 km | 2359 km |
Regions
Valparaíso47,571Antofagasta42,003Tarapacá19,893Coquimbo19,883Atacama10,895Santiago9,756O'Higgins8,787Maule6,041Arica y Parinacota3,887Biobío3,107Araucanía1,916Ñuble1,628Los Lagos906Los Ríos510Aysén509Magellan and the Chilean Antarctic221
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.