4.0
15,905
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.60
mean magnitude
14,501
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9 | 21.12.1939 21:00 | 35 km | 133 km |
| 7.9 | 01.01.1996 08:05 | 30.9 km | 268 km |
| 7.8 | 22.01.1905 02:43 | 90 km | 173 km |
| 7.7 | 29.11.1998 14:10 | 16.5 km | 369 km |
| 7.6 | 18.04.1990 13:39 | 25.9 km | 275 km |
| 7.6 | 28.09.2018 10:02 | 15.9 km | 211 km |
| 7.5 | 04.05.2000 04:21 | 38.6 km | 207 km |
| 7.5 | 20.06.1991 05:18 | 39.2 km | 276 km |
| 7.5 | 19.05.1938 17:08 | 35 km | 315 km |
| 7.5 | 19.10.2001 03:28 | 29.4 km | 441 km |
| 7.4 | 06.08.1984 12:01 | 239.7 km | 140 km |
| 7.3 | 16.11.2008 17:02 | 29.6 km | 252 km |
| 7.3 | 14.08.1968 22:14 | 16.8 km | 244 km |
| 7.2 | 04.12.1932 08:11 | 15 km | 386 km |
| 7.2 | 11.01.1913 13:16 | 35 km | 274 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 04.08.2026 06:11 | 35 km | 221 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 04:09 | 11 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 00:31 | 3 km | 169 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 22:25 | 86 km | 161 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:44 | 94 km | 172 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:13 | 26 km | 211 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 10:05 | 5 km | 229 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 01:03 | 148 km | 199 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2026 21:06 | 232 km | 237 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 20:54 | 5 km | 166 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 19:07 | 5 km | 194 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 15:54 | 73 km | 247 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 11:20 | 50 km | 226 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 07:54 | 4 km | 181 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 07:43 | 7 km | 243 km |
| 3.5 | 02.08.2026 07:23 | 3 km | 250 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 01:04 | 4 km | 227 km |
| 3.1 | 01.08.2026 16:54 | 4 km | 150 km |
| 2.5 | 01.08.2026 08:42 | 11 km | 133 km |
| 4.0 | 01.08.2026 07:29 | 5 km | 182 km |
| 2.9 | 01.08.2026 00:35 | 5 km | 92 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 23:56 | 4 km | 242 km |
| 2.8 | 31.07.2026 23:16 | 4 km | 183 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 17:30 | 5 km | 218 km |
| 3.1 | 31.07.2026 10:56 | 5 km | 169 km |
| 2.9 | 30.07.2026 18:41 | 3 km | 152 km |
| 3.5 | 30.07.2026 17:14 | 5 km | 243 km |
| 2.9 | 30.07.2026 10:15 | 36 km | 235 km |
| 3.0 | 30.07.2026 09:21 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 2.9 | 30.07.2026 01:42 | 4 km | 163 km |
| 3.0 | 29.07.2026 21:36 | 49 km | 265 km |
| 3.0 | 29.07.2026 18:09 | 89 km | 225 km |
| 2.7 | 29.07.2026 17:14 | 4 km | 155 km |
| 2.9 | 29.07.2026 15:15 | 5 km | 147 km |
| 2.7 | 29.07.2026 09:00 | 7 km | 144 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2026 06:18 | 173 km | 165 km |
| 2.9 | 29.07.2026 04:20 | 10 km | 199 km |
| 3.2 | 29.07.2026 03:57 | 157 km | 155 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 22:37 | 5 km | 257 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 17:29 | 25 km | 170 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 14:55 | 4 km | 147 km |
| 3.0 | 28.07.2026 09:33 | 35 km | 103 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 07:30 | 4 km | 149 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 00:41 | 12 km | 252 km |
| 3.8 | 27.07.2026 20:58 | 170 km | 145 km |
| 2.9 | 27.07.2026 20:48 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 19:49 | 5 km | 177 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 19:40 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 17:55 | 5 km | 137 km |
| 2.8 | 27.07.2026 10:20 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 07:49 | 26 km | 150 km |
| 3.0 | 27.07.2026 05:01 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 3.1 | 27.07.2026 04:42 | 173 km | 137 km |
| 2.8 | 26.07.2026 19:41 | 81 km | 187 km |
| 2.7 | 26.07.2026 18:04 | 206 km | 110 km |
| 2.5 | 26.07.2026 15:49 | 101 km | 175 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 13:38 | 6 km | 229 km |
| 2.5 | 26.07.2026 12:55 | 101 km | 184 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 08:20 | 56 km | 225 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 04:12 | 9 km | 248 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.