2.8
1,416
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.90
mean magnitude
1,085
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 | 199 km |
| 7.7 | 17.08.1952 16:02 | 25 km | 407 km |
| 7.6 | 27.01.1931 20:09 | 15 km | 332 km |
| 7.3 | 17.02.1905 11:42 | 0 km | 270 km |
| 7.3 | 29.07.1947 13:43 | 20 km | 104 km |
| 7.1 | 23.10.1943 17:23 | 15 km | 164 km |
| 7.0 | 31.08.1906 14:57 | 100 km | 273 km |
| 7.0 | 29.07.1970 10:16 | 73.5 km | 244 km |
| 7.0 | 12.12.1908 12:54 | 15 km | 256 km |
| 6.8 | 21.10.1964 23:09 | 20.2 km | 63 km |
| 6.6 | 21.01.1941 12:41 | 15 km | 273 km |
| 6.5 | 31.08.1937 14:15 | 15 km | 313 km |
| 6.5 | 03.12.1915 02:39 | 15 km | 280 km |
| 6.5 | 12.05.1906 05:48 | 35 km | 198 km |
| 6.5 | 01.07.1911 00:00 | 0 km | 303 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 21:21 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 00:08 | 5 km | 264 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 17:24 | 11 km | 199 km |
| 3.2 | 30.07.2026 17:22 | 14 km | 189 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2026 23:22 | 10 km | 254 km |
| 3.0 | 29.07.2026 01:23 | 5 km | 184 km |
| 3.2 | 28.07.2026 22:16 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 19:16 | 15 km | 187 km |
| 3.6 | 28.07.2026 14:36 | 10 km | 208 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 09:32 | 15 km | 261 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 04:57 | 12 km | 199 km |
| 3.3 | 27.07.2026 17:10 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 3.6 | 27.07.2026 00:14 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 4.7 | 25.07.2026 23:09 | 10 km | 217 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2026 13:23 | 25 km | 200 km |
| 3.1 | 24.07.2026 21:26 | 14 km | 250 km |
| 3.0 | 22.07.2026 12:35 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 2.8 | 22.07.2026 04:07 | 30 km | 188 km |
| 2.8 | 21.07.2026 19:07 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 4.3 | 21.07.2026 18:55 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 16:30 | 10 km | 239 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 15:45 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 2.8 | 21.07.2026 07:38 | 26 km | 181 km |
| 2.9 | 20.07.2026 20:11 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 3.5 | 20.07.2026 06:22 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 3.5 | 19.07.2026 02:36 | 13 km | 184 km |
| 3.0 | 18.07.2026 17:07 | 17 km | 190 km |
| 2.9 | 18.07.2026 08:17 | 35 km | 216 km |
| 3.0 | 18.07.2026 02:19 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 3.8 | 18.07.2026 01:57 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 3.2 | 17.07.2026 00:16 | 5 km | 278 km |
| 3.6 | 14.07.2026 21:16 | 106 km | 177 km |
| 3.0 | 14.07.2026 18:31 | 8 km | 187 km |
| 3.3 | 14.07.2026 18:15 | 7 km | 189 km |
| 3.3 | 14.07.2026 18:08 | 7 km | 191 km |
| 3.3 | 14.07.2026 17:27 | 8 km | 183 km |
| 3.1 | 14.07.2026 17:20 | 6 km | 173 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2026 17:19 | 8 km | 185 km |
| 3.0 | 13.07.2026 02:24 | 14 km | 132 km |
| 2.8 | 12.07.2026 03:34 | 16 km | 249 km |
| 3.7 | 10.07.2026 18:52 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 2.7 | 10.07.2026 07:29 | 10 km | 237 km |
| 2.6 | 10.07.2026 01:33 | 5 km | 250 km |
| 2.9 | 09.07.2026 10:22 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 2.7 | 09.07.2026 03:01 | 5 km | 311 km |
| 2.8 | 04.07.2026 13:44 | 5 km | 255 km |
| 3.0 | 03.07.2026 17:02 | 82 km | 225 km |
| 3.5 | 02.07.2026 11:58 | 5 km | 227 km |
| 3.0 | 28.06.2026 22:18 | 7 km | 251 km |
| 3.2 | 28.06.2026 19:40 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 2.8 | 27.06.2026 04:57 | 5 km | 333 km |
| 2.7 | 26.06.2026 22:15 | 5 km | 246 km |
| 2.8 | 26.06.2026 13:05 | 5 km | 243 km |
| 3.9 | 25.06.2026 17:46 | 30 km | 213 km |
| 2.5 | 24.06.2026 19:43 | 9 km | 254 km |
| 3.2 | 22.06.2026 23:34 | 10 km | 231 km |
| 2.9 | 22.06.2026 17:04 | 5 km | 246 km |
| 3.5 | 22.06.2026 09:39 | 10 km | 255 km |
| 2.6 | 22.06.2026 07:53 | 3.9 km | 250 km |
| 2.5 | 22.06.2026 03:45 | 5 km | 252 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.