3.5
3,499
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.79
mean magnitude
3,082
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 | 443 km |
| 7.6 | 12.09.1946 15:20 | 15 km | 402 km |
| 7.6 | 27.01.1931 20:09 | 15 km | 396 km |
| 7.5 | 08.07.1918 10:22 | 15 km | 256 km |
| 7.3 | 17.02.1905 11:42 | 0 km | 317 km |
| 7.3 | 29.07.1947 13:43 | 20 km | 291 km |
| 7.3 | 12.09.1946 15:17 | 15 km | 361 km |
| 7.3 | 17.02.1905 11:41 | 15 km | 508 km |
| 7.2 | 02.07.1930 21:03 | 15 km | 266 km |
| 7.2 | 06.08.1988 00:36 | 98.1 km | 259 km |
| 7.1 | 23.10.1943 17:23 | 15 km | 120 km |
| 7.0 | 29.07.1970 10:16 | 73.5 km | 250 km |
| 7.0 | 31.08.1906 14:57 | 100 km | 430 km |
| 7.0 | 12.12.1908 12:54 | 15 km | 406 km |
| 6.9 | 05.01.1991 14:57 | 21.4 km | 410 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 04.08.2026 00:03 | 9 km | 232 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 00:35 | 4 km | 256 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 23:05 | 105 km | 217 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 21:21 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 3.4 | 02.08.2026 04:04 | 53 km | 205 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 00:08 | 5 km | 192 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 00:23 | 5 km | 208 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 17:24 | 11 km | 232 km |
| 3.2 | 30.07.2026 17:22 | 14 km | 229 km |
| 3.6 | 30.07.2026 05:19 | 75 km | 232 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 19:16 | 15 km | 208 km |
| 3.6 | 28.07.2026 14:36 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 28.07.2026 08:05 | 110 km | 306 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 04:57 | 12 km | 214 km |
| 3.3 | 27.07.2026 17:10 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 3.6 | 27.07.2026 00:14 | 10 km | 221 km |
| 4.7 | 25.07.2026 23:09 | 10 km | 327 km |
| 3.1 | 24.07.2026 21:26 | 14 km | 89 km |
| 3.1 | 24.07.2026 17:19 | 10 km | 255 km |
| 2.9 | 23.07.2026 23:35 | 112 km | 253 km |
| 2.9 | 23.07.2026 21:41 | 25 km | 40 km |
| 3.0 | 22.07.2026 12:35 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 2.8 | 22.07.2026 04:07 | 30 km | 176 km |
| 3.4 | 21.07.2026 23:43 | 59 km | 207 km |
| 2.8 | 21.07.2026 19:07 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 16:30 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 15:45 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 2.8 | 21.07.2026 07:38 | 26 km | 200 km |
| 2.7 | 20.07.2026 09:20 | 5 km | 214 km |
| 3.5 | 20.07.2026 06:22 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 2.6 | 19.07.2026 19:23 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.5 | 19.07.2026 02:36 | 13 km | 220 km |
| 3.0 | 18.07.2026 17:07 | 17 km | 216 km |
| 2.5 | 18.07.2026 13:55 | 5 km | 281 km |
| 3.6 | 18.07.2026 13:17 | 96 km | 222 km |
| 2.9 | 18.07.2026 08:17 | 35 km | 124 km |
| 3.4 | 18.07.2026 03:41 | 55 km | 246 km |
| 3.0 | 18.07.2026 02:19 | 10 km | 222 km |
| 3.8 | 18.07.2026 01:57 | 10 km | 215 km |
| 3.3 | 17.07.2026 20:04 | 24 km | 66 km |
| 3.4 | 17.07.2026 17:14 | 107 km | 243 km |
| 2.7 | 17.07.2026 10:21 | 5 km | 140 km |
| 2.9 | 17.07.2026 00:44 | 5 km | 263 km |
| 3.2 | 17.07.2026 00:16 | 5 km | 124 km |
| 3.6 | 16.07.2026 04:45 | 62.8 km | 229 km |
| 3.3 | 16.07.2026 01:16 | 18 km | 152 km |
| 2.8 | 15.07.2026 02:02 | 10 km | 263 km |
| 3.2 | 15.07.2026 00:56 | 13 km | 215 km |
| 3.6 | 14.07.2026 21:16 | 106 km | 316 km |
| 3.0 | 14.07.2026 18:31 | 8 km | 224 km |
| 3.3 | 14.07.2026 18:15 | 7 km | 230 km |
| 3.3 | 14.07.2026 18:08 | 7 km | 213 km |
| 3.3 | 14.07.2026 17:27 | 8 km | 222 km |
| 3.1 | 14.07.2026 17:20 | 6 km | 220 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2026 17:19 | 8 km | 226 km |
| 3.6 | 14.07.2026 10:20 | 28 km | 170 km |
| 2.6 | 14.07.2026 07:23 | 27 km | 345 km |
| 3.0 | 13.07.2026 02:24 | 14 km | 171 km |
| 3.4 | 13.07.2026 01:53 | 90 km | 230 km |
| 3.9 | 13.07.2026 01:02 | 80 km | 205 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.