3.4
2,822
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1901–2026
record span
4.25
mean magnitude
2,549
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6 | 15.08.1950 14:09 | 15 km | 650 km |
| 7.7 | 23.05.1912 02:24 | 15 km | 692 km |
| 7.6 | 27.01.1931 20:09 | 15 km | 516 km |
| 7.5 | 14.04.1955 01:29 | 10 km | 532 km |
| 7.3 | 30.07.1917 23:54 | 15 km | 427 km |
| 7.3 | 17.02.1905 11:41 | 15 km | 500 km |
| 7.2 | 26.12.1941 14:48 | 10 km | 371 km |
| 7.2 | 21.12.1913 15:37 | 15 km | 110 km |
| 7.2 | 22.06.1923 06:44 | 25 km | 410 km |
| 7.2 | 04.01.1970 17:00 | 11.1 km | 137 km |
| 7.2 | 25.05.1948 07:11 | 55 km | 574 km |
| 7.1 | 02.02.1950 23:33 | 35 km | 407 km |
| 7.0 | 31.08.1906 14:57 | 100 km | 530 km |
| 7.0 | 12.12.1908 12:54 | 15 km | 549 km |
| 7.0 | 06.11.1988 13:03 | 12.6 km | 334 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | 04.08.2026 02:25 | 5 km | 468 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 08:25 | 7 km | 227 km |
| 4.9 | 03.08.2026 05:00 | 10 km | 488 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 03:11 | 5 km | 469 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 19:54 | 6 km | 470 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 19:29 | 5 km | 470 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2026 18:32 | 10 km | 472 km |
| 5.0 | 02.08.2026 18:21 | 2.6 km | 481 km |
| 4.5 | 31.07.2026 21:24 | 10 km | 229 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 13:39 | 6 km | 590 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 12:44 | 10 km | 458 km |
| 3.7 | 30.07.2026 06:16 | 10 km | 432 km |
| 3.4 | 30.07.2026 01:26 | 10 km | 424 km |
| 3.2 | 28.07.2026 16:53 | 8 km | 405 km |
| 3.2 | 28.07.2026 02:51 | 5 km | 467 km |
| 3.6 | 24.07.2026 00:29 | 10 km | 415 km |
| 3.1 | 22.07.2026 03:45 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 3.3 | 21.07.2026 21:14 | 9 km | 223 km |
| 5.1 | 21.07.2026 11:43 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 3.1 | 20.07.2026 11:25 | 10 km | 227 km |
| 3.1 | 20.07.2026 02:27 | 9 km | 253 km |
| 3.2 | 16.07.2026 12:54 | 9 km | 129 km |
| 4.4 | 12.07.2026 23:27 | 58.5 km | 477 km |
| 3.2 | 12.07.2026 23:27 | 0 km | 459 km |
| 3.4 | 12.07.2026 21:02 | 20.2 km | 474 km |
| 3.0 | 11.07.2026 14:23 | 9 km | 227 km |
| 3.3 | 11.07.2026 11:14 | 11 km | 227 km |
| 3.9 | 11.07.2026 11:09 | 0 km | 228 km |
| 3.1 | 10.07.2026 12:23 | 5 km | 469 km |
| 3.8 | 10.07.2026 11:48 | 0 km | 476 km |
| 3.3 | 10.07.2026 09:38 | 5 km | 468 km |
| 3.2 | 10.07.2026 06:05 | 6 km | 470 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 04:25 | 0 km | 449 km |
| 4.4 | 08.07.2026 23:44 | 10 km | 474 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 05:05 | 6 km | 467 km |
| 5.0 | 08.07.2026 02:08 | 10 km | 467 km |
| 3.2 | 07.07.2026 22:48 | 8 km | 468 km |
| 4.3 | 07.07.2026 22:22 | 10 km | 494 km |
| 4.4 | 07.07.2026 22:19 | 10 km | 463 km |
| 3.0 | 07.07.2026 22:17 | 8 km | 469 km |
| 3.1 | 07.07.2026 22:14 | 8 km | 471 km |
| 5.0 | 07.07.2026 22:12 | 10 km | 475 km |
| 4.1 | 07.07.2026 20:01 | 0 km | 466 km |
| 3.2 | 05.07.2026 23:10 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 3.6 | 04.07.2026 10:28 | 0 km | 144 km |
| 3.8 | 04.07.2026 10:07 | 0 km | 142 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2026 09:33 | 0 km | 146 km |
| 4.1 | 04.07.2026 09:00 | 0 km | 149 km |
| 3.6 | 03.07.2026 09:09 | 10 km | 437 km |
| 5.2 | 28.06.2026 16:12 | 0 km | 473 km |
| 3.3 | 24.06.2026 02:53 | 0 km | 171 km |
| 3.1 | 04.06.2026 05:49 | 0 km | 334 km |
| 4.2 | 03.06.2026 05:41 | 10 km | 471 km |
| 4.0 | 28.05.2026 17:08 | 9 km | 365 km |
| 3.0 | 15.05.2026 03:18 | 10 km | 451 km |
| 3.6 | 12.05.2026 14:55 | 10 km | 487 km |
| 4.4 | 12.05.2026 14:13 | 10 km | 488 km |
| 3.7 | 08.05.2026 06:42 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 4.1 | 04.05.2026 16:03 | 10 km | 476 km |
| 3.9 | 04.05.2026 13:30 | 10 km | 507 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.