3.2
5,506
recorded earthquakes
M8.5
largest
1900–2026
record span
4.12
mean magnitude
4,576
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.5 | 12.09.2007 11:10 | 24 km | 121 km |
| 7.9 | 12.09.2007 23:49 | 39.2 km | 227 km |
| 7.8 | 04.06.2000 16:28 | 44 km | 89 km |
| 7.8 | 25.10.2010 14:42 | 22.9 km | 259 km |
| 7.6 | 04.06.2000 16:39 | 35.7 km | 98 km |
| 7.6 | 25.06.1914 19:07 | 35 km | 64 km |
| 7.3 | 13.02.2001 19:28 | 25.8 km | 124 km |
| 7.3 | 25.09.1931 05:59 | 35 km | 175 km |
| 7.3 | 24.06.1933 21:54 | 20 km | 287 km |
| 7.3 | 25.07.2004 14:35 | 580.8 km | 235 km |
| 7.2 | 03.06.1909 18:40 | 35 km | 259 km |
| 7.2 | 13.08.1913 04:25 | 75 km | 342 km |
| 7.2 | 08.06.1943 20:42 | 15 km | 110 km |
| 7.2 | 25.02.2008 08:36 | 29 km | 306 km |
| 7.1 | 10.02.1931 06:34 | 35 km | 173 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 06:57 | 14 km | 160 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 11:30 | 12 km | 162 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 23:20 | 47 km | 87 km |
| 3.2 | 31.07.2026 08:12 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 3.1 | 31.07.2026 05:08 | 17 km | 161 km |
| 3.1 | 30.07.2026 00:00 | 188 km | 92 km |
| 2.7 | 29.07.2026 15:05 | 67 km | 149 km |
| 3.3 | 28.07.2026 23:26 | 12 km | 214 km |
| 2.7 | 28.07.2026 16:14 | 42 km | 204 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 10:21 | 69 km | 217 km |
| 3.4 | 27.07.2026 12:09 | 26 km | 92 km |
| 2.8 | 27.07.2026 08:21 | 72 km | 70 km |
| 3.0 | 26.07.2026 02:35 | 14 km | 110 km |
| 3.9 | 25.07.2026 21:27 | 34 km | 224 km |
| 2.8 | 25.07.2026 19:19 | 97 km | 123 km |
| 2.6 | 24.07.2026 22:53 | 30 km | 236 km |
| 4.8 | 24.07.2026 17:28 | 59.5 km | 257 km |
| 3.3 | 23.07.2026 19:04 | 18 km | 238 km |
| 4.1 | 22.07.2026 23:40 | 34 km | 63 km |
| 3.5 | 22.07.2026 19:46 | 28 km | 240 km |
| 3.5 | 21.07.2026 22:18 | 81 km | 68 km |
| 3.1 | 21.07.2026 16:29 | 31 km | 58 km |
| 3.1 | 20.07.2026 23:54 | 33 km | 92 km |
| 2.9 | 20.07.2026 18:01 | 7 km | 202 km |
| 3.5 | 20.07.2026 14:54 | 33 km | 205 km |
| 3.9 | 19.07.2026 23:57 | 35 km | 76 km |
| 2.6 | 18.07.2026 18:48 | 42 km | 77 km |
| 3.1 | 18.07.2026 00:18 | 24 km | 156 km |
| 2.7 | 17.07.2026 10:00 | 28 km | 189 km |
| 3.1 | 17.07.2026 03:55 | 34 km | 60 km |
| 3.0 | 16.07.2026 20:19 | 13 km | 114 km |
| 3.4 | 16.07.2026 03:33 | 8 km | 193 km |
| 4.0 | 15.07.2026 14:01 | 13 km | 165 km |
| 3.2 | 14.07.2026 17:05 | 184 km | 187 km |
| 3.2 | 14.07.2026 12:58 | 6 km | 229 km |
| 2.8 | 14.07.2026 11:48 | 153 km | 83 km |
| 2.6 | 13.07.2026 07:01 | 6 km | 147 km |
| 2.5 | 13.07.2026 06:29 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 2.9 | 11.07.2026 22:48 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 3.2 | 10.07.2026 13:17 | 3 km | 166 km |
| 3.5 | 05.07.2026 14:08 | 23 km | 118 km |
| 2.9 | 05.07.2026 12:43 | 38 km | 39 km |
| 3.7 | 05.07.2026 10:37 | 29 km | 121 km |
| 4.2 | 04.07.2026 21:32 | 254 km | 194 km |
| 3.0 | 03.07.2026 20:56 | 12 km | 111 km |
| 2.5 | 02.07.2026 20:06 | 94 km | 155 km |
| 3.6 | 30.06.2026 09:33 | 49 km | 177 km |
| 4.0 | 29.06.2026 20:04 | 49 km | 53 km |
| 3.3 | 28.06.2026 22:14 | 28 km | 140 km |
| 2.7 | 28.06.2026 09:11 | 15 km | 189 km |
| 3.4 | 26.06.2026 16:22 | 33 km | 95 km |
| 2.7 | 26.06.2026 02:14 | 40 km | 48 km |
| 2.8 | 25.06.2026 16:21 | 32 km | 123 km |
| 3.2 | 24.06.2026 03:37 | 7 km | 205 km |
| 4.0 | 23.06.2026 07:43 | 0 km | 141 km |
| 3.2 | 23.06.2026 02:40 | 72 km | 128 km |
| 4.3 | 22.06.2026 18:03 | 66.1 km | 85 km |
| 4.2 | 21.06.2026 05:21 | 20 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 21.06.2026 00:29 | 69 km | 35 km |
| 2.5 | 20.06.2026 17:00 | 10 km | 102 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.