2.5
5,003
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.83
mean magnitude
3,273
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | 11.09.1921 04:01 | 15 km | 441 km |
| 7.2 | 11.09.1916 06:30 | 100 km | 200 km |
| 7.2 | 10.09.1926 10:34 | 35 km | 375 km |
| 7.1 | 28.08.2023 19:55 | 516.2 km | 351 km |
| 7.1 | 11.08.1937 00:55 | 610 km | 347 km |
| 7.1 | 23.07.1943 14:53 | 60 km | 426 km |
| 6.9 | 05.08.2018 11:46 | 31.9 km | 353 km |
| 6.9 | 19.08.2018 14:56 | 25.7 km | 377 km |
| 6.8 | 27.09.1937 08:55 | 55 km | 360 km |
| 6.7 | 07.07.1910 08:16 | 35 km | 329 km |
| 6.7 | 24.03.1967 09:00 | 603.1 km | 193 km |
| 6.7 | 06.07.2020 22:54 | 538.2 km | 358 km |
| 6.6 | 09.07.1984 23:19 | 541.8 km | 300 km |
| 6.6 | 02.09.1992 05:50 | 622.4 km | 208 km |
| 6.6 | 10.03.2011 17:08 | 518.6 km | 368 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 05:15 | 44 km | 335 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 00:14 | 5 km | 167 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 07:16 | 6 km | 179 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 21:47 | 28 km | 326 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 19:20 | 49 km | 209 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 13:37 | 18 km | 298 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 13:10 | 21 km | 298 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 10:44 | 20 km | 305 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 05:45 | 134 km | 222 km |
| 3.6 | 02.08.2026 05:15 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 05:12 | 11 km | 204 km |
| 2.5 | 01.08.2026 15:34 | 24 km | 306 km |
| 3.5 | 01.08.2026 15:19 | 126 km | 169 km |
| 3.9 | 01.08.2026 10:14 | 64 km | 303 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2026 09:58 | 25 km | 307 km |
| 2.9 | 01.08.2026 03:33 | 11 km | 244 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 12:05 | 36 km | 301 km |
| 2.5 | 31.07.2026 03:42 | 14 km | 223 km |
| 2.8 | 30.07.2026 10:51 | 10 km | 281 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2026 09:43 | 20 km | 320 km |
| 2.9 | 30.07.2026 09:36 | 134 km | 171 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2026 12:30 | 64 km | 214 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2026 04:48 | 22 km | 259 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2026 04:04 | 10 km | 313 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2026 00:04 | 117 km | 220 km |
| 3.2 | 28.07.2026 16:08 | 31 km | 200 km |
| 4.2 | 28.07.2026 13:29 | 22 km | 210 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 10:05 | 97 km | 187 km |
| 2.7 | 27.07.2026 18:21 | 61 km | 306 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 15:05 | 97 km | 158 km |
| 3.1 | 26.07.2026 22:10 | 240 km | 169 km |
| 2.8 | 26.07.2026 17:55 | 130 km | 182 km |
| 2.5 | 26.07.2026 17:37 | 12 km | 179 km |
| 2.7 | 26.07.2026 16:26 | 28 km | 305 km |
| 2.9 | 26.07.2026 05:49 | 23 km | 257 km |
| 3.1 | 26.07.2026 03:24 | 10 km | 280 km |
| 3.4 | 26.07.2026 02:17 | 146 km | 208 km |
| 2.9 | 26.07.2026 00:31 | 32 km | 255 km |
| 2.7 | 25.07.2026 21:36 | 19 km | 244 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2026 20:50 | 10 km | 240 km |
| 2.8 | 25.07.2026 20:43 | 13 km | 281 km |
| 2.7 | 25.07.2026 10:47 | 5 km | 313 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2026 10:02 | 104 km | 252 km |
| 2.5 | 25.07.2026 06:59 | 29 km | 314 km |
| 2.7 | 24.07.2026 15:46 | 35 km | 213 km |
| 3.2 | 24.07.2026 05:00 | 150 km | 186 km |
| 2.6 | 24.07.2026 02:25 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 24.07.2026 02:23 | 50 km | 210 km |
| 2.5 | 23.07.2026 23:22 | 29 km | 205 km |
| 2.9 | 23.07.2026 21:25 | 138 km | 203 km |
| 2.7 | 23.07.2026 19:28 | 16 km | 278 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 19:25 | 10 km | 302 km |
| 2.9 | 23.07.2026 18:08 | 10 km | 315 km |
| 3.5 | 23.07.2026 14:31 | 88 km | 170 km |
| 2.5 | 23.07.2026 01:58 | 8 km | 239 km |
| 2.9 | 23.07.2026 01:38 | 163 km | 199 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 17:59 | 106 km | 262 km |
| 2.7 | 22.07.2026 08:54 | 28 km | 288 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 06:20 | 258 km | 223 km |
| 2.6 | 21.07.2026 20:06 | 60 km | 301 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.