3.0
13,578
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1900–2026
record span
3.60
mean magnitude
12,169
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 05.09.2012 14:42 | 20.7 km | 134 km |
| 7.6 | 22.04.1991 21:56 | 15.7 km | 125 km |
| 7.6 | 18.07.1934 01:36 | 30 km | 271 km |
| 7.6 | 21.12.1939 20:54 | 25 km | 44 km |
| 7.5 | 05.10.1950 16:09 | 97.9 km | 130 km |
| 7.4 | 03.04.1983 02:50 | 29.6 km | 166 km |
| 7.3 | 05.12.1941 20:47 | 20 km | 162 km |
| 7.3 | 26.04.1916 02:21 | 35 km | 93 km |
| 7.3 | 25.03.1990 13:22 | 21.2 km | 67 km |
| 7.2 | 26.07.1962 08:14 | 25 km | 288 km |
| 7.2 | 24.10.1956 14:42 | 35 km | 342 km |
| 7.2 | 21.06.1900 20:52 | 0 km | 145 km |
| 7.2 | 24.04.1916 08:02 | 35 km | 174 km |
| 7.2 | 20.01.1904 14:51 | 10 km | 320 km |
| 7.2 | 20.12.1904 05:44 | 35 km | 185 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 04:21 | 8 km | 132 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 13:31 | 147 km | 102 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 09:02 | 2 km | 86 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 05:57 | 13 km | 79 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 00:21 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 23:03 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 22:57 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 20:16 | 2 km | 87 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 19:51 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 3.6 | 02.08.2026 19:10 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 19:02 | 9 km | 216 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 17:20 | 16 km | 217 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 14:33 | 29 km | 235 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2026 14:10 | 37 km | 88 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 07:02 | 18 km | 220 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 07:01 | 37 km | 68 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 05:20 | 11 km | 199 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2026 04:18 | 6 km | 48 km |
| 2.9 | 01.08.2026 17:19 | 29 km | 168 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 11:32 | 22 km | 56 km |
| 3.3 | 01.08.2026 11:25 | 6 km | 219 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2026 08:23 | 11 km | 163 km |
| 2.9 | 01.08.2026 07:59 | 6 km | 48 km |
| 3.2 | 01.08.2026 06:13 | 6 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 01.08.2026 02:19 | 6 km | 49 km |
| 4.3 | 01.08.2026 02:16 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.9 | 31.07.2026 13:36 | 24 km | 44 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 15:32 | 24 km | 152 km |
| 3.6 | 28.07.2026 13:12 | 55 km | 126 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 09:37 | 166 km | 238 km |
| 2.7 | 28.07.2026 05:05 | 35 km | 96 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 01:10 | 103 km | 87 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 01:06 | 7 km | 84 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 00:29 | 9 km | 85 km |
| 2.7 | 26.07.2026 23:33 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.9 | 26.07.2026 23:22 | 5 km | 87 km |
| 2.5 | 26.07.2026 20:19 | 21 km | 193 km |
| 2.5 | 26.07.2026 14:34 | 36 km | 96 km |
| 3.2 | 26.07.2026 13:55 | 22 km | 216 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 02:13 | 4 km | 133 km |
| 2.5 | 25.07.2026 21:12 | 15 km | 49 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2026 20:26 | 7 km | 118 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2026 15:25 | 15 km | 209 km |
| 3.5 | 25.07.2026 05:28 | 4 km | 28 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2026 03:06 | 41 km | 165 km |
| 2.8 | 24.07.2026 20:42 | 18 km | 69 km |
| 2.7 | 23.07.2026 23:17 | 300 km | 148 km |
| 2.6 | 23.07.2026 16:12 | 19 km | 77 km |
| 3.2 | 23.07.2026 15:49 | 8 km | 78 km |
| 3.0 | 23.07.2026 13:57 | 5 km | 65 km |
| 3.3 | 22.07.2026 21:04 | 13 km | 182 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 18:07 | 25 km | 209 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 10:26 | 17 km | 161 km |
| 3.6 | 22.07.2026 04:15 | 20 km | 79 km |
| 3.3 | 22.07.2026 00:55 | 23 km | 5 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 16:01 | 15 km | 195 km |
| 2.6 | 21.07.2026 06:45 | 19 km | 167 km |
| 2.6 | 21.07.2026 02:19 | 300 km | 111 km |
| 2.7 | 20.07.2026 19:35 | 15 km | 150 km |
| 2.7 | 20.07.2026 10:57 | 300 km | 183 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.