2.5
42,003
recorded earthquakes
M8.2
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.38
mean magnitude
36,633
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 | 09.12.1950 21:38 | 113.9 km | 113 km |
| 8.1 | 01.04.2014 23:46 | 17.1 km | 472 km |
| 8.0 | 30.07.1995 05:11 | 32.8 km | 146 km |
| 7.8 | 13.06.2005 22:44 | 104.8 km | 393 km |
| 7.7 | 03.04.2014 02:43 | 12 km | 361 km |
| 7.7 | 14.11.2007 15:40 | 42.9 km | 169 km |
| 7.7 | 29.11.1957 22:19 | 232.5 km | 358 km |
| 7.7 | 28.12.1966 08:18 | 22.1 km | 287 km |
| 7.6 | 04.10.1983 18:52 | 28.6 km | 385 km |
| 7.5 | 30.11.1976 00:40 | 78.1 km | 338 km |
| 7.5 | 05.03.1987 09:17 | 41.4 km | 181 km |
| 7.5 | 25.08.1916 09:44 | 180 km | 290 km |
| 7.5 | 04.12.1918 11:47 | 40 km | 384 km |
| 7.4 | 18.04.1939 06:22 | 35 km | 459 km |
| 7.3 | 19.07.2024 01:50 | 123.9 km | 118 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 06:30 | 126 km | 203 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 06:01 | 224.2 km | 152 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 05:25 | 136.3 km | 229 km |
| 3.9 | 04.08.2026 05:16 | 223 km | 156 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 04:10 | 227.9 km | 198 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 04:08 | 134.4 km | 193 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 02:30 | 214.2 km | 198 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 01:31 | 233.4 km | 187 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 01:19 | 216.4 km | 203 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 00:36 | 136.9 km | 210 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 23:19 | 182 km | 187 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 22:11 | 166.9 km | 134 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 21:27 | 97.4 km | 145 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 20:44 | 109.1 km | 142 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 20:34 | 134.4 km | 188 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:14 | 118.9 km | 268 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:47 | 116.3 km | 151 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 14:32 | 211.8 km | 201 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 12:24 | 212.5 km | 211 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 12:08 | 234.3 km | 191 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 12:04 | 135.2 km | 265 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:44 | 194.2 km | 196 km |
| 4.6 | 03.08.2026 10:55 | 182.5 km | 211 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 10:38 | 195.8 km | 181 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 09:46 | 135.9 km | 252 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 07:18 | 45 km | 179 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 06:07 | 114.1 km | 157 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 04:09 | 211.2 km | 117 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 03:47 | 215.3 km | 154 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 03:26 | 101.1 km | 262 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 03:23 | 262.1 km | 184 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 02:43 | 103 km | 141 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 23:53 | 100.7 km | 43 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 22:49 | 208.2 km | 160 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 20:41 | 199.8 km | 177 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 15:38 | 109.6 km | 299 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 14:48 | 129.8 km | 273 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 14:33 | 125.4 km | 178 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 12:42 | 107.5 km | 117 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 12:31 | 71.8 km | 39 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 11:46 | 196 km | 150 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 10:32 | 265.2 km | 162 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 10:16 | 126.4 km | 213 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 10:03 | 119.4 km | 143 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 09:04 | 224.3 km | 174 km |
| 4.6 | 02.08.2026 08:49 | 172.5 km | 205 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 06:27 | 28 km | 225 km |
| 3.5 | 02.08.2026 06:26 | 129.8 km | 199 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 03:55 | 226.1 km | 216 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 02:32 | 200.8 km | 156 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 00:01 | 132.5 km | 199 km |
| 3.3 | 01.08.2026 21:13 | 103.6 km | 147 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 21:06 | 197.4 km | 186 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2026 19:48 | 228.1 km | 189 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2026 19:28 | 236.9 km | 194 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2026 19:21 | 188 km | 272 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 17:43 | 221.7 km | 293 km |
| 3.3 | 01.08.2026 17:14 | 221.4 km | 204 km |
| 3.2 | 01.08.2026 15:23 | 103.1 km | 28 km |
| 3.4 | 01.08.2026 14:52 | 157.3 km | 188 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.